Albert Monument, London, England
The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens London England directly to the north of the Royal Albert Hall It was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha who died of typhoid in 1861 and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style Opened in 1872 with the statue of Albert ceremonially seated in 1875 the memorial consists of an ornate canopy or pavilion containing a statue of Prince Albert facing south This is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus which depicts 169 individual composers architects poets painters and sculptors There are two allegorical sculpture programs four groups depicting Victorian industrial arts and sciences agriculture commerce engineering and manufacturing and four more groups representing Europe Asia Africa and The Americas at the four corners each continent group including several ethnographic figures and a large animal A camel for Africa a buffalo for the Americas an elephant for Asia and a bull for Europe Digitally restored Art 1890 1900 Photochrom or Photochrome is used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative using between four and fourteen lithograph stones made from rocklike substances to colorize the print with several different inks
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