Images Dated 2009 October

Battle of Cable Street mural K031532

FORMER ST GEORGE'S TOWN HALL, 236 Cable Street, Tower Hamlets, London. Mural on end wall commemorating the Battle of Cable Street. Wall painting

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Street Art

Bridgewater House, London DD56_00034

BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, Westminster, London. Interior view. Before the First World War Bridgewater House contained the finest private picture gallery in England, admitting visitors on Wednesdays and Saturdays after previous application in writing. Lady Ellesmere's Boudoir (shown here) was not open to the public when the family were in residence. The circular painting is a Raphael Holy Family known as 'Madonna with the Palm Tree', and to its right Raphael's 'The Madonna del Passeggio', both now on display in the National Gallery of Scotland. To the left is a studio copy of Raphael's 'Madonna with the Blue Diadem' (the original is in the Louvre). Photographed by Newton and Co (1890-1914)

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Pieneman - General Miguel Ricardo de Alava y Esquivel N070688

APSLEY HOUSE, London. "General Miguel Ricardo de Alava y Esquivel" sketched by Jan Willem PIENEMAN (1779-1843) in 1821. WM 1527-1948. A veteran of the Spanish contingent at Trafalgar, Alava joined the uprising against the French in 1808. In 1810 he was sent as Spanish liaison with the British in Portugal, where he became friendly with the Duke of Wellington. In 1815, as Spanish ambassador to the Hague, he was able to take up an appointment on Wellington's field staff as the Spanish Commissionary for the allies at the Battle of Waterloo

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