Inside Out Library · Explore

The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace (1854)

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 · London : Crystal Palace Library and Bradbury & Evans · leaf 39

An illustration from The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace, 1854, leaf 39
PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENTATION, 37 follow only the angular direction of the inclined lines ; D e F but unite these by circles as at r, and we have still more perfect harmony, i. e., repose, for the eye has now no longer any want that could be supplied.1 5. In the surface decoration of the IVIoors all… … 1 It is to the neglect of this obvious rule that we find so many failures in paper hangings, carpets, and more especially articles of costume ; the lines of papers generally run through the ceiling most disagreeably, because the straight is not corrected by the or the angular by the curved ; so of…

Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England) · Islamic architecture -- Exhibitions · Exhibition buildings -- England -- London · Arkitektur -- Spanien

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace

More like this