Title

'Magog (Corineus), one of the two City giants burnt in the London Guildhall fire, 1940. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

'Magog (Corineus), one of the two City giants burnt in the London Guildhall fire of Sunday, December 29th, 1940'. Gog and Magog, are associated with Guildhall. Legend has it that the two giants were defeated by Brutus and chained to the gates of his palace on the site of Guildhall. The earliest versions of Gog and Magog were destroyed during the Great Fire of London. They were replaced in 1708 by a pair of wooden statues carved by Captain Richard Saunders. It was these giants that were destroyed in the Blitz. From The Connoisseur, 1941 edited by H. Granville Fell. [The National Magazine Co. Ltd, London, 1941]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1940

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C66_006

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

67,4Mb (4,6Mb) / 12,2in x 21,4in / 3664 x 6432 (300dpi)

Keywords

city London England holding wood interior indoors industry large statue day magazine weapon weapons guarding giant wooden war location disaster century spear inside catastrophe company concept legend mythology B&W 1940s MONOCHROME warfare guildhall magog Forties mythical creature black & white black and white B W weaponry legendary 20th century The Print Collector decade male likeness mythical beast TGN The Connoisseur photograph Unknown Majuj human likeness Fell H Granville Fell H Granville National Magazine Co Ltd fire of London Corineus H Granville Fell photograph