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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.
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Wichmann, B., Wade, D. (2017). A Worked Example. In: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 2. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69977-6_8
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