FAMOUS LIONS
•The famous lions at the base of the Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square are the work of Sir Edwin Landseer. The figure of Nelson, stands 145 feet above them. These colossal lions, stationed in what has been called the "central square" of the universe, aro said to have listened to more political balderdash than any lions in the world. They remain quite unmoved. The lion of lions is that on Lion Hill at Waterloo, marking one of the great battlefields of all time. The Lion of Lucerne, the work of Thorwaldsen, was executed in 1821, to the memory of twenty-six officers and 760, soldiers of the Swiss Guards who fell in defending the Tuileries on 10th August, 1792. The animal, hewn out of natural sandstone and reclining in a grotto, is represented as dying, transfixed by a broken lanco and sheltering the Bourbon lily with, its pa.w.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 16
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149FAMOUS LIONS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 16
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