2-888-437 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sculpture of the New Front of Buckingham Palace - Southern Wing, 1850. 'The sculptural enrichment of the new east front of Buckingham Palace [in London, has]...been completed...These sculptures adorn the centre and two wings of the Park facade...Upon the...southern wing is a circle for the reception of a clock dial, flanked by Morning and Night, the latter with bats' wings and her characteristic bird, the centre figure of Apollo being an impersonation of Noon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.