"...I occasionally repair in the evenings to the little domestic circle of Doņa Antonia. This is generally held in an old Moorish chamber, which serves the good dame for parlour, kitchen and hall of audience, and which must have boasted of some splendour in the time of the Moors, if we may judge from the traces yet remaining."
An illustration from the 1851 edition of "The Alhambra", written by Washington Irving and illustrated by Felix O. C. Darley, published by George P. Putnam, New York. Washington Irving, 1783-1859, lodged in the Alhambra in 1829, and wrote his highly romanticised "Tales of the Alhambra" as a result. In so doing, he set in motion the romantic movement's enduring love affair with Granada but also, probably, the start of the slow restoration of the palace.

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