This postcard depicts a crowd gathered in front of the Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace in London, with early automobiles and a motorcycle visible in the foreground.* Publisher: Valentine\'s
* Card number: 27-1
* \"Colourtone\" SeriesThe Queen Victoria Memorial was conceived following the monarch\'s death in 1901.Architect Sir Aston Webb and sculptor Sir Thomas Brock designed the 82-foot-tall monument, which King George V officially unveiled in 1911.Its central pylon of Pentelic marble features a seated Victoria facing The Mall, topped by a gilded bronze Winged Victory.Buckingham Palace became the official London residence of the British sovereign upon Queen Victoria\'s accession in 1837.The facade depicted behind the memorial is the East Front, which was refaced with Portland stone in 1913 by Webb to create a unified architectural backdrop for the newly completed monument.Shipping and Handling:
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