Object Details
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Description
- Stephen Ferris’s watercolor view Justicia, Granada shows the Alhambra’s Gate of Justice (Puerta de la Justicia) painted during the artist’s 1881 visit to Spain. In a letter to Sylvester R. Koehler, later Curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian, Ferris, deeply moved by his experiences, observed: “‘See the Alhambra and die’ seems a very appropriate expression. I feel it and have more reverence for the Arabs [sic] art than any other school.”
- Today the Gate of Justice is the main entrance to the Alhambra complex, which was completed by the Moors in the fourteenth century. The Spanish, who defeated the Moors in 1492, made later additions.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- 1881
- ID Number
- GA.14548
- catalog number
- 14548
- accession number
- 94830
- Object Name
- watercolor
- painting
- Object Type
- Watercolor
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- watercolor (part material)
- graphite (part material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 35 cm x 25 cm; 13 3/4 in x 9 13/16 in
- place presumably made
- Spain: Andalusia, Granada
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1002047
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-c769-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
