Granada-View from San Cristobal.

George Vivian (1798-1873), draughtsman and painter from London, travelled through Spain and Portugal making sketches of many old buildings and towns. On his return Vivian made the drawings famous publishing a collection of lithographs under the title "Scenery of Portugal & Spain". The work consists of 33 magnificent drawings on stone by L. Haghe. Vivian selected the most interesting and picturesque scenes for the lithographs, delivering a vivid picture of the countries in the early nineteenth century. Vivian notes: ‘Granada. The Spectator is supposed to stand on the terrace in front of the Church of San Cristobal, and looks down on the Moorish Walls of the quarter of the Town called el Albaycin, beyond, to the left, is the Alcazabra, a part of the Fortress of the Alhambra; and to the right, nearly in the middle of the picture, rises another Moorish building called the Torre Vermeja, or the Vermilion Tower. In the distance is the Vega of Granada bounded by the Sierra Nevada.’

Fine condition.