Owen Jones (1809-74)
Tomb near Cairo
1833, published in 1843

Ink and watercolour over pencil
Museum no. SD.532

While in Athens, Jones met the young French architect Jules Goury, who was assisting Gottfried Semper with his radical studies of the colouring of ancient Greek buildings. Awakened to a new understanding of form and colour, Jones and Goury decided to head south to explore the ancient sites and medieval Islamic architecture of Egypt.