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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
8. A Worked Example
Authors : Brian Wichmann, David Wade
Published in: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In 1936 Maurits Escher visited the Alhambra with his wife Jetta and made a number of sketches (Schattschneider, M C Escher — Visions of Symmetry, 1990, p. 17). One hundred years earlier, Owen Jones published his first work on the Alhambra (Jones and Goury, Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra, 1837). Both subsequently produced a drawing of the same pattern from that building (Locher 1992, pp. 41, 53; Victoria and Albert Museum collections website (719669). Unlike Jones, we have the advantage of working from modern photographs, at least in this case Fig. 8.1.