2-703-536 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Piccadilly and the Quadriga of Constitution Hill', c1935. View of the Wellington Arch, a triumphal arch in central London between Hyde Park and Green Park. It was designed by Decimus Burton and built 1826-1830, and once supported an equestrian statue of the 1st Duke of Wellington. The quadriga, an ancient four-horse chariot, has been mounted on it since 1912. From "Wonderful London, Volume 1", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]