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Description: | Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of London's West End, connects five busy streets. In the centre, there is a bronze fountain with a statue of a winged archer rising from the water.
The monument was built in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. The statue, by the sculptor Alfred Gilbert, was intended to be Anteros, the God of Selfless Love. However, it is sometimes given the title 'The Angel of Christian Charity' and is more commonly known by Londoners as Eros.
The popular sculpture became a City icon. It was removed temporarily in the late 1920s for the development of Piccadilly's new Underground station and was greatly missed by the public. The Underground group published this poster in 1931, just before it was returned. The image by George Morrow was reproduced in Punch magazine and comically suggests how excavators should celebrate the event. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1931 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Printer : Waterlow & Sons Ltd | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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