Wyld's Great Globe, Leicester Square, London
Architect/Designer | Abraham, Henry Robert (1804-1877) |
Country | UK: England |
City | London |
Subject Date | 1851 |
Image Date | 1851 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | SC131/77 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Entertainment buildings ; Domes ; Squares |
NOTES: The building was designed to contain a great globe that the public entered and viewed the surface of the earth modeled in plaster of Paris with mountain range's and rivers to scale. It opened a month after the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park and was demolished in 1862.
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