Plate XLIX, Mosaics

Category

Library Item

Item no

30825

Title

Details and ornaments from The Alhambra, plate XLIX, Mosaics

Description

Detail of the mosaics in the divan from the Court of the Fish Pond at The Alhambra. The pattern is in blue, green, yellow and dark blue tiles.

Artist / maker

Jones, Owen

Date

1845

Size

45.0 x 31.0 cm

Type

Lithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

As mosaics are generally in the lower parts of the walls, the use of secondary and tertiary colours is significant. Green, purple and different hues of blue are used in these tiles. The composition is created on a repetition of simple geometrical forms, creating a uniform pattern, while colours form a different design that ties to the geometrical one.

(Jones set out thirty-seven propositions or general principals in the Grammar of Ornament which aimed to improve the general artistic standards through mass education. Find out more about Owen Jones and his design aesthetic and ideals from the Victoria and Albert Museum.)

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Furnishings > Ornamentation > Decorations

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