3-028-350 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lamp on the Thames Embankment [in London], 1870. A design '...which at present exists only in plaster, but [is] painted to imitate bronze...[It] occupies an important position, where it remains to await the critical judgment of men of taste. It is designed by Mr. G. Vulliamy, chief architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works, who has cleverly availed himself, in its figures of the dolphins, of the fine examples he had seen at Rome, in the ornamental fountains of Monte Pincio, and in other parts of that city. The execution of this design, according to the estimates of the Coalbrookdale Company, would cost but a very moderate sum; and it is to be hoped that the Board will not hesitate to order the completion of the work'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.