'Big Ben at Night', 1947. Floodlit view of the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London. The tower, designed in a neo-Gothic style by Augustus Pugin, was completed in 1859 and holds the Great Bell known as 'Big Ben'. Silhouetted on the right is a horse from the statue known as 'Boadicea and Her Daughters'. From "The House of Commons", by Martin Lindsay [Collins, London, 1947]

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