October 2014: "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" by Paul Cummings. Red poppies bleed into the moat at the Tower of London.

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The art installation "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" created by ceramic artist Paul Cummings and setting by stage designer Tom Piper is to is to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. There are 888,246 poppies in the installation, one for each British and Colonial fatality during the war

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Size: 6016px × 4016px
Location: Tower of London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Robert Hughes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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