2-648-871 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The First Attempt at Launching', 1877, (1910). Cleopatra's Needle was originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. It remained in Alexandria until October 1877 when it was transport to London funded by William James Erasmus Wilson. From "The Strand Magazine". [George Newnes Ltd., London, 1910]