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Title(s):
Wellington Statue Hyde Park Corner : from Piccadilly : height 27 feet : weight 40 tons : cost £30,000.
Published/Created:
[London] : J.T. Wood, 33 Holywell St., [between 1845 and 1857]
Physical Description:
1 print : steel engraving ; 11 x 15 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA68.12.W4 W55 1845 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Printed in blue on card.
Engraving of the Wellington Arch (or Constitution Arch), designed by Decimus Burton. Originally, the arch was topped with an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington by Matthew Cotes Wyatt. The arch was moved in 1883 and the large equestrian statue was removed to Sandhurst.
Joseph Thomas Wood was active at 33 Holywell Street from 1845 to 1857. See: Brown, P.A.H. London publishers and printers.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- England -- London.
Architecture.
Gates -- England.
Memorial arches -- England.
Statues -- England -- London.
Triumphal arches -- England -- London.
Wellington Arch (London, England)
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852 -- Monuments.
Form/Genre:
Ephemera.
Steel engravings -- 1845-1857.
Contributors:
Burton, Decimus, 1800–1881.
Wyatt, Matthew Cotes, 1777–1862, artist.
Wood, J. T. (Joseph Thomas), -1874, publisher.
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