• Granada, Distant View of the Sierra Nevada

Creator:

• John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876)

Description:

• Lithograph From Lewis's Sketches of Spain & Spanish Character: Made During His Tour in That Country in the Years 1833-4 London: F.G. Moon and J.F. Lewis, 1836

Curatorial Notes:

• John Frederick Lewis was the scion of a successful artistic family and sold his first painting at age 15. He was attracted to watercolors because their direct technique allowed his draftsmanship to be fully expressed. His first major artisticentrepreneurial trip was to Spain “to make a sort of picturesque tour … having orders for young ladies’ albums and from divers booksellers …” John Ruskin said of Lewis “Watercolour drawing can be carried no further; nothing has been left unfinished or untold.”

Photography:

• David Kelly Crow

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/bg257m44z

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical