2-750-968 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hall of the Two Sisters', 19th century, (1907). Interior decoration in the palace of the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, which mainly dates from the 14th century. In the centre of the floor is a fountain, and the roof is a dome honeycombed with 'stalactite vaulting'. From "The Alhambra: being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration" by Albert F. Calvert. [John Lane, London & New York, 1907]