LEWIS (John Frederick).

Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra.

Beautiful Lithographs of the Alhambra

First edition. Large folio. Comprising lithographic frontispiece and vignette on title page, dedication page with list of plates on verso and 25 other sepia lithographic plates. Minor damp-staining to bottom third of every leaf. Later quarter morocco over original maroon cloth boards; boards slightly rubbed and stained, corners bumped. London, Hodgson Boys and Graves, 1835.

£3,500.00

Ruskin considered Lewis an under-rated genius and declared him “the painter of greatest power next to Turner, in the English school”. Abbey Travel, 148..

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