[Houses of Parliament. London] – Antique Print
![[Houses of Parliament. London] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5b/5bd7849b37e0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Houses of Parliament. London]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Houses of Parliament. London]
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The Palace of Westminster, home of Parliament in London, is the subject here, pictured in a photographic print dated to 1886. The building was rebuilt after a fire in 1834 destroyed most of the old medieval palace, and the Gothic Revival design by Charles Barry, with interiors by Augustus Pugin, was still fairly new when this view was made. Its clock tower, which houses the bell known as Big Ben, is among the most recognized landmarks in the city. Because the record gives few specifics beyond the title and date, the image is best read as a document of how the complex looked to a visitor in the mid-1880s.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1886] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,255 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120048 |
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