[Cover of Washington Irving, The Alhambra, in Arabic] – Antique Wall Art
![[Cover of Washington Irving, The Alhambra, in Arabic], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e9/e9aeff6fd6cc-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Cover of Washington Irving, The Alhambra, in Arabic]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Cover of Washington Irving, The Alhambra, in Arabic]
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The lettering on this cover is Arabic, which sets it apart from the English-language copies of Washington Irving's *The Alhambra* that usually appear in collections. Irving published the book in 1832, drawing on his stay in Granada in 1829, when he lived in rooms within the Alhambra, the palace complex built by the Nasrid rulers of Granada in the 13th and 14th centuries. The record gives no date for this print, so its exact age and the edition it shows remain uncertain. Even so, the cover illustrates how far Irving's account of Granada's Moorish monuments traveled beyond English readers.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | cf: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Summer 1983, p. 260. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Books. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,090 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156385 |
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