Jeffery Matthews: Landmarks of London

Artist: Jeffrey Matthews
1928 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1980
Image Size: 8.75 by 5 inches
Overall Size: 13.5 by 9.85 inches
Medium: Crayon Drawing on Water Color Paper

One of the most famous of all of London's landmarks, Big Ben is actually misnamed. Today, it brings to mind the stately tower itself, displaying the strong, steady face of time. But originally, the affectionate nickname was given to a bell which once hung within the tower. Today, the time is tolled by a more modern bronze hour-bell while the thirteen-foot pendulum is adjusted to keep perfect time by adding and removing coins from two piles of pennies balanced on the pendulum weight. In another part of the city the steady rhythm of Big Ben is all but forgotten and nighttime means lights, laughter and colorful confusion. It's Piccadilly Circus. The British call it the "hub of the universe" and claim you're bound to meet everybody there, if you wait long enough. High above all the confusion, another of London's great landmarks surveys the nightly crowds. It is the statue of Eros, God of Love and mythical son of Chaos, who makes a most fitting comment on the modern traffic scene. Patterned after a Victorian angel of Christian Charity, the statue has affectionately been renamed Eros by Londoners who think that title more fitting. Shadowy barges on the mist shrouded Thames float by Windsor Castle ... the ghosts of Henry VIII's wives roam the thousand corridors of Hampton Court Palace ... and cobbled streets surrounding the Royal Opera House echo the footfall of thousands of enchanted sightseers. This is London ... a city brimming with vitality.

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