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The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son
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Title:
The Great Globe, Leicester Square, Westminster, London, c1855. Artist: Day & Son
Caption:
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.
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Credit:
Album / The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images
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Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:
3688 x 2851 px | 30.1 MB
Print size:
31.2 x 24.1 cm | 12.3 x 9.5 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
19TH CENTURY • AMUSEMENT • ANIMAL • ANIMALS • ARCHITECTURE • ATTRACTION • BRITAIN • BRITISH • BUILDING • BUILDINGS • CARRIAGE • CENTURY • CITY OF WESTMINSTER • COLOR • COLOUR • CONCEPT • COUNTRY • DAY & SON • DIVERSION • DIVERTISSEMENT • E WALKER; WALKER • E • ENGLAND • ENGLISH • ENTERTAINMENT • EVENT • EVENTS • EXTERIOR • GEOGRAPHY • GREAT EXHIBITION 1851 • GUILDHALL LIBRARY & ART GALLERY • HORSE • HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE • HORSES • JAMES WYLD • JAMES • LEICESTER SQUARE • LITHOGRAPH • LOCATION • LONDON • NINETEENTH CENTURY • OUTSIDE • PEOPLE • PICKEN • ROAD TRANSPORT • SQUARE • THOMAS PICKEN • THOMAS • TRANSPORT • TRANSPORTATION • VICTORIAN ERA • VICTORIAN • WESTMINSTER • WYLD'S GLOBE • WYLD
