Ancient Egyptian sculpture of a sphinx called the Alnwick Sphinx, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Artist/Photographer | Vulliamy, George John (1817-1886) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Alnwick |
Subject Date | -1409 |
Image Date | 1873 |
Style | Egyptian |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | VOS/220 p. 57 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Statues |
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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