2-756-266 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Big Ben at Night', 1947. Floodlit view of the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London. The tower, designed in a neo-Gothic style by Augustus Pugin, was completed in 1859 and holds the Great Bell known as 'Big Ben'. Silhouetted on the right is a horse from the statue known as 'Boadicea and Her Daughters'. From "The House of Commons", by Martin Lindsay M.P. [Collins, London, 1947]