THE SEVILLIAN DRAWINGS BY RICHARD FORD REVISITED: WAYS OF SEEING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

Abstract

The drawings that Richard Ford, the famous English traveller author of the Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, made in Sevilla from 1830 to 1833 are a key source to the iconography of the city. These works can incorporate new interpretations when considered the context of Ford’s whole corpus of Spanish drawings. The intention of this text is the analysis of the making process of this work and its own characteristics –chronology; ways of seeing– in order to understand how the urban landscape was reflected. We talk about a rich urban landscape because of the contrast between continuity and transformations.