FAMOUS LIONS.
The famous lions at the base of the Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square are the work of Sir Edward Landseer. The figure of Nerlsjon stands 145 feet above them. These colossal lions, stationed in what has been called the "central square" of the universe, are 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 26 officers and 760 soldiers of the Swiss Guards who fell in defending the Tuileries on August 10th, 1792. The animal, hewn out of natural sandstone and reclining in a grotto, is represented as dying, transfixed by a broken lance and sheltering the Bourbon lily with its paw.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 7
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149FAMOUS LIONS. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 7
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