The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 531
te marble, than to incur the expense of re- mm XV XV XV 304 The Alhambra. gilding. Such is the opinion of the famous decorative artist,Owen Jones; but the fondness of the Oriental for the spotlesspurity of marble, and the transparency of alabaster, so oftexpressed in the inscriptions, forbids its… … EXTERIOR OF THE MOSQUE (PRIVATE PROPERTY). Beneath this Golden Saloon is a network of dungeon-likepassages, by which, it is said, Sultans escaped in treasonablerevolts, when angry scimitars were glittering in the fountain-courts, or when the incensed populace were tossing theirthreatening spears in…
