2-703-551 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Cleopatra's Needle Hewn Fourteen Hundred Years Before The Birth of Cleopatra', c1935. Ancient Egyptian obelisk dating from c1500 BC, transported from Egypt to London in 1878 and erected on the Thames Embankment. People sit on the steps leading down to the river. From "Wonderful London, Volume 1", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]