2-756-627 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Arab-Moorish architectural decoration, (1898). 'Arabian-Moresque - Architectonic Ornament - Fig 1: Panel from the Alhambra [Granada, Spain]. Fig 2: Decoration in stone above a door in Cairo. Figs 3 and 4: Base and capital of a column from Cairo. Figs 5 and 6: Base and capital of a column from the Alhambra. Figs 7 and 8: Stalactites from Cairo. Figs 9 and 10: Corbels from Cairo. Figs 11-15: Pinnacles from Cairo...Here we meet the so-called Arabian feather, so very frequently employed, especially in the Alhambra...'. Plate 26 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]