Monuments Collection (page 9)

City of Rome Date: 1493

Cleopatras Needle in silhouette
Cleopatras Needle situated on the Victoria Embankment, London, watched over by the sphinx. The artist describes it rather poignantly as That Sad Stone. Date: 1926

The Royal Air Force Memorial in silhouette
The Royal Air Force memorial, on the Embankment, London, captured in silhouette. Built in 1923, it is situated on the Victoria Embankment close to Cleopatras Needle

American War Memorial, Gibraltar
American War Memorial (Naval Monument), Gibraltar, relating to the First World War, dedicated in 1937. Date: circa 1930s

Willett Sundial Memorial
WILLIAM WILLETT Willet, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Kent, England. His campaign for daylight saving led to the Summer Time Act of 1925. Date: 1856 - 1915

Kutab Minar, and the ruins, India
The Kutab Minar, an Islamic monument erected in the 13th century. Date: 1903

Qutb complex, The Kutab The Great Central Arch, India
Qutb complex, decorative archway, built to honor the Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. Date: 1903

Haig Statue, Whitehall
DOUGLAS, 1ST EARL HAIG The fine statue of the British World War One Senior Commander, in front of the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, Westminster, London. Date: 1861 - 1928

Shelley Monument
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY monument : he died by drowning in a storm off the coast of Italy. Date: 1792 - 1822

Shakespeare Monument
Memorial to Shakespeare in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford on Avon, donated by American visitors. Date: 1564 - 1616

Shakespeare Epitaph
Inscriptions over the graves of Shakeapeare and his wife in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford on Avon. Date: 1564 - 1616

Shakespeare Tomb
The tomb of Shakespeare in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford on Avon. Date: 1564 - 1616

Statue of Wellington
DUKE OF WELLINGTON Statue (erected 1844) of Wellington, outside the Bank of England, London, cast in bronze from cannons he captured from the French. Date: 1769 - 1852

Diaz Monument
BARTHOLOMEW DIAZ Monument to the Portuguese explorer, the first European to see the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: 1450 (?) - 1500

Fete de la Victoire - Paris, France - War Memorial
Fete de la Victoire, 14th July 1919 - Paris, France - The President of France, Raymond Poincare (1860-1934), pictured with other officials (and possibly other former French Presidents)

Parnells Grave - Dublin, Glasnevin Cemetery
Dublin, Glasnevin Cemetery (Prospect Cemetery), Charles Stewart Parnells Grave (foreground) Daniel O Connells Tomb (Tower - background) Date: 1904

Inhabitants and Monuments of Easter Island, Drawing
" INHABITANTS and MONUMENTS of EASTER ISLAND, drawing by G.D. Vancy for the book " La Perouses journey around the world", 1798. Engraving."

Second Crusade (1147-1149). Battle in Syria. Fresco of the Templar Chapel. Romanesque art. Fresco. FRANCE. Paris. National Museum of French Monuments. Proc: FRANCE. Cressac-Saint-Genis

TUNISIA. TUNIS. Carthage. Punic pillars, funerary monuments. Carthaginian art. Sculpture

Lincoln Memorial Statue
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bust of the American President by Andrew O Connor, loaned to the Gresham Committee by the Lincoln Presentation Committee. Date: early 1930s

lfrics translation of the Lords Prayer, from a 17th century edition. With decorative initial letter.. From: Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue : written seven hundred yeares agoe

Monuments of civilization. Illustration shows at top, Puck holding a paper that states The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - Here modern science, aided by Vivisection

Rock Reliefs - Dog River, Lebanon
Rock cut reliefs of Shalmaneser III and Pharaoh Ramses at Dog River, Lebanon. The Nahr al-Kalb (English literal translation is Dog River)

Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, China - Soldier Statues
Soldier Statues - grave monuments at the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the tomb of the Hongwu Emperor and founder of the Ming Dynasty

Genoa, Italy - Staglieno Cemetery Date: circa 1920s

Pompeys Pillar - wrongly believed to contain remains of Roman general Pompey, this pillar near Alexandria was raised in the 4th century to honour the emperor Diocletian. Date: 4th century / 1850

Christian Krohg Statue
Memorial statue of Norwegian naturalist painter, author and journalist CHRISTIAN KROHG (1852 - 1925), surrounded by tourists enjoying a drink at an open air cafe, Oslo, Norway Date: late 1960s

Samuel Lister Statue
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER His statue in Lister Park, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. A prolific inventor of over 150 inventions, including a wool-combing machine. Date: 1815 - 1906

Thomas Smith Memorial
THOMAS GILBERT SMITH The Smith Memorial Seat, beside the A35 road, near Sidford, Devon, England. He fell from his bicycle here and died. Then it thundered. Date: 1848 - 1904

Clive of India Memorial
Memorial statue of Robert Clive, 1st Baron on Plassey ( Clive of India ), King Charles Street, London, England. Date: late 1960s

T. E. Lawrence Effigy
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA This effigy of T.E. Lawrence in St. Martins Church, Wareham, Dorset, is by Eric Kennington. Lawrence is in full Arab dress; head on a camel saddle. Date: 1888 - 1935

Crimea Memorial 1950S
The Crimea Memorial on Lower Regent Street, London, seen from Waterloo Place. Date: 1950s

Van Riebeeck Statue
JOHAN JAN VAN RIEBEECK Statue of the Dutch colonial administrator, credited as the founder of Cape Town, South Africa. Date: 1619 - 1677

The Lever Memorial, outside the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, in memory of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and his wife. Date: 1851 - 1925

The Wallace Stone, at Blairston Mains Farm, near Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. It has associations with Sir William Wallace and has a carving of a sword on it. Date: 1950s photo

Construction of the Battle of Nations memorial, Leipzig, 191
Illustration showing the construction of the huge Battle of Nations memorial monument at Leipzig to commemorate the battle fought in and around Leipzig against Napoleon

Inauguration of King Victor Emmanuel monument
Inauguration day for the Victor Emmanuel monument, known as Il Vittoriano, in Rome. The first stone of the enormous architectural marble monument to, Victor Emmanuel II

Artists impression of the Queen Victoria Memorial
The Queen Victoria Memorial monument, sculpted by Sir Thomas Brock and unveiled in a ceremony on 16th May 1911

Unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial
The moment of the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial monument outside Buckingham Palace on 16 May 1911. The monument was sculpted by Sir Thomas Brock

Queen Eleanors Cross, Northampton. The Eleanor crosses were 12 originally wooden, but later lavishly decorated stone, monuments, of which three survive intact

Boundary Monument between USA and Mexico - Tijuana
A Boundary Monument between the United States and Mexico at San Diego, California, USA. The monuments erected by the boundary survey played a pivotal role in securing the line after

Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - Islamic Cemetery

Barcelona, Spain - International Exhibition
The Great Fountain by night. Barcelona, Spain - International Exhibition of 1929 - 1930. In a large park on the Montjuic hill

Boundary Monument between USA and Mexico
A Boundary Monument between the United States and Mexico at San Diego, California, USA. The monuments erected by the boundary survey played a pivotal role in securing the line after

Two Monuments of London
Illustration showing the obelisk, Cleopatras Needle on the Thames Embankment in Central London with the Hotel Cecil in the background

Petra repairs 1962, Jordan
Restorations in the desert: repair work among the monuments of Petra, Jordan. This picture shows the closing stages of repair to fallen column which is part of the facade of the Khazne(treasury)

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
A general view of Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, from near Amesbury, notable for Stonehenge and other rude stone monuments

English Cemetery - Uskudar (Scutari)
The English Cemetery at Scutari (Uskudar)

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