Sujet
The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son
Légende
The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. View with a street scene. Wyld's Globe was built in 1851 at the time of the Great Exhibition by James Wyld, a distinguished geographer and MP. Housed inside a purpose-built building was a hollow globe 60 feet in diameter with staircases and platforms from which people could view a representation, to scale, of the Earth's surface. The globe remained in Leicester Square until 1862.
Date
1855
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives
Notre référence
HRM19B03_119
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
30,1Mo (1,3Mo) / 31,2cm x 24,1cm / 3688 x 2851 (300dpi)