A view from the Embankment showing the needle, actually a stone obelisk from Egypt dating to the reign of Tutmoses III (c.1500 B.C.), given to Britain and brought back at the cost of some lives in 1879.

Date:
1889
Location:
Cleopatra's Needle, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London Authority
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Embankment, City Of Westminster, Greater London Authority
Reference:
CC56/01084
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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This is part of the Series: HWT01/01 Glass Plate Negatives And Inkjet Prints; within the Collection: HWT01 Henry W Taunt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Taunt, Henry William

Curator: Birks, Moira

Keywords

Obelisk, Victorian Commemorative Monument, Archaeology And Excavations