4928 x 3264 px | 41,7 x 27,6 cm | 16,4 x 10,9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
12 septembre 2016
Lieu:
Crystal Palace
Informations supplémentaires:
After the Great Exhibition of 1851 the Crystal Palace was dismantled and moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham. The project also included the creation of a landscaped park. An Upper Terrace and a Lower Terrace with flights of granite steps linked the Crystal Palace to the park. Six sphinxes, arranged in pairs, stand on the South Wing, the South Transept and the North Transept of the Crystal Palace terraces. They are among the few remnants of the magnificent glass structure which succumbed to a tragic fire on the night of 30 November 1936. The sphinxes are full-sized copies of an original housed in the Louvre, Paris, which dates to Egypt’s 12th Dynasty ruler, Amenemhat II (1929-1895 BC). These impressive replicas have welcomed visitors to the Crystal Palace since its original opening in 1854. A recent restoration project has replaced missing paws and tails on the statues, as well as restoring the original rendered concrete finishand painted the statues red in keeping with the original red granite Egyptian sphinx in the Louvre, Paris.
