2-717-016 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Wellington Monument, London', c1910. Bronze equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner, designed in 1888 by Joseph Edgar Boehm. On the right is the Wellington Arch, a triumphal arch designed by Decimus Burton and built 1826-1830. It once supported an earlier equestrian statue of the Duke which was removed in 1882-1883 as it was considered to be too large for the arch, and also, by some, too vulgar. Postcard.