LA CASA SANCHEZ—THE HOUSE OF SANCHEZ.
La Casa Sanchez, so-called from having been the dwelling of an honest muleteer of that name, was once one of the most picturesque and most Moorish of dwellings. But, alas! in the year 1837, the whole front was “restored” and “beautified,” and an ancient fish-pond, similar to that of the Court of Myrtles, was filled up and converted into a garden by one of the resident officers of the Palace. The ruthless empleado, who caused the Moorish doors of the Hall of the Abencerrages to be sawn asunder, permitted also this outrage by a man of equal
MOSAIC PAVEMENT IN THE DRESSING-ROOM OF THE SULTÁNA.
taste with himself, who ruined the little architectural gem. The ruin yet offers a specimen of minute and beautiful tarkish—stucco-work—that even the lovely examples of the Alhambra itself cannot surpass. An illustration at p. 445, from a drawing of about the year 1830, ’ere the spoiler came, will give an idea of the departed beauty of the jewelled building.
SABRE OF THE LAST MOORISH KING OF GRANADA, COMMONLY CALLED “THE SWORD OF BOABDIL.”
ELEVATION OF THE CASA DEL CARBON, OR “HOUSE OF CARBON,” ONCE KNOWN AS THE HOUSE OF THE WEATHER-COCK.
HOUSE OF SANCHEZ.
PLAN AND SECTION OF THE GREAT CISTERN IN THE ALHAMBRA.