Sujet

Buckingham Gate, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Buckingham Gate, 1872. Woman and child passing people sleeping in an arch of the York Watergate, once the river entrance to York House, the Duke of Buckingham's London mansion on the Strand. Built in 1626, the gate gave access to the Thames. The building of the Thames Embankment in the 1860s left it 150 yards from the river, in Embankment Gardens. From "London: a pilgrimage", with illustrations by Gustave Doré and text by Blanchard Jerrold, [London: Grant & Co., 1872] (p.86).

Date

1872

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A46_001

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50.6Mo (7.3Mo) / 42.0cm x 30.2cm / 4960 x 3564 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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