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Description

A courtyard in the Alhambra, Grenada
signed with initials 'BF' (lower left), inscribed 'No. 5, A little courtyard in the Alhambra, Birket Foster, Braeside The Heath Weybridge Sussex' (on the label to the reverse)
watercolour and gouache on paper
23 x 17.5cm



Footnote:

In the spring of 1883, Myles Birket Foster went to travel around Morocco and Spain with his son and a friend. They arrived in Grenada after a period in Tangier and inspired by the Moorish architecture of the Alhambra, Birket Foster would go on to make multiple sketches similar to the present lot.



Condition report:

44 x 37cm (framned)

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