Westminster Abbey Parliament Big Ben 1896 Antique Print

A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side.

Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm.

Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT;—The site of the old Royal Palace at Westminster is now occupied by the Houses of Parliament, which form one of the most magnificent buildings ever erected in a single decade in Europe; probably, indeed, the largest Gothic edifice in the world. The reader who has not yet had the good fortune to make a survey of this superb temple of legislation may glean some idea of its vast proportions when we state that it covers an area of nearly nine acres; that to the eastward- it presents a frontage of nearly 1,000ft.; that towers of lesser magnitude than the gigantic Victoria Tower crown other portions of the building; that fourteen halls, galleries, vestibules, and other apartments of great capacity and noble proportions are contained within its limits; that it comprises eight official residences—each first-rate mansions fit to receive families of high degree; that twenty corridors -and lobbies are required to serve as the great roadways through this aggregation of edifices; that thirty-two noble apartments facing the river are occupied as committee-rooms; that libraries, waiting-rooms and dining-rooms, and clerks' offices exist in a superabundant measure; that eleven greater courts and a score of minor openings give light and air to the interior of this superb fabric; that its cubic contents exceed 15,000,000ft., and that the whole structure contains no fewer than 500 or 600 distinct apartments. The Royal or Victoria Tower, at the south-west angle, is one of the most stupendous works of its kind ever conceived; it is 75ft. square, and rises to a height of 345ft. The Clock Tower is 318ft. high, and the large clock has four dials, each 2 3ft. in diameter. The Houses of Parliament cost in all about three millions sterling.