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Ancient Egyptian sculpture of a sphinx called the Alnwick Sphinx, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

RIBA Ref No RIBA82197
Artist/PhotographerVulliamy, George John (1817-1886)
CountryUK: England
CityAlnwick
Subject Date-1409
Image Date1873
StyleEgyptian
MediumDrawing
Library ReferenceVOS/220 p. 57
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoColour
CreditRIBA Collections
SubjectStatues
NOTES: Cleopatra's Needle was erected on the Embankment in 1878, however the bronze mountings and sphinxes were not in place until 1881. The sphinxes were enlarged copies of the sphinx at Alnwick Castle dating from the time of Thuthmose III.
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