Title

'Big Ben at Night', 1947. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Big Ben at Night', 1947. Floodlit view of the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London. The tower, designed in a neo-Gothic style by Augustus Pugin, was completed in 1859 and holds the Great Bell known as 'Big Ben'. Silhouetted on the right is a horse from the statue known as 'Boadicea and Her Daughters'. From "The House of Commons", by Martin Lindsay M.P. [Collins, London, 1947]

Credit line

Photo12/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G32_433

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

63,3Mb (2,5Mb) / 14,3in x 17,3in / 4277 x 5176 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel exterior outdoors building England landmark architecture politics night country tower British English clock palace political Gothic location clock tower century Big Ben Houses of Parliament Britain time of day B&W 1940s tourist attraction Forties 19th century black & white black and white B W Neo-Gothic Gothic Revival 20th century nineteenth century Palace of Westminster Victorian Gothic history tourism The Print Collector decade St Stephen's Tower outside photograph Unknown William Lindsay Collins Martin William Collins Elizabeth Tower 1st Baronet social history Britain in Pictures William Collins & Sons Martin Lindsay Sir Martin Lindsay Lieutenant Colonel Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay Lieuten photograph