Houses of Parliament – Antique Print
![Houses of Parliament, [ca. 1895] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/86/86ebe5349ead-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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A window into the past: Houses of Parliament, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Seen from the Thames, the Palace of Westminster shows its long riverside front and the tall clock tower that many visitors would have known from a boat on the river. The present building rose after a fire in 1834 destroyed much of the old medieval palace, with Charles Barry as architect and Augustus Pugin supplying much of the Gothic detail. By the 1890s, views like this were reproduced in photomechanical form and gathered into souvenir albums, such as the one this plate comes from, which paired the Parliament buildings with Westminster Abbey.
| Created / published | [ca. 1895] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | View from river of Houses of Parliament, London. In album: Views of the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, illus. no. 1. |
| Subjects | Westminster Palace (London, England)--1890-1900. Capitols--England--London--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,266 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183329 |
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