Location: London, UK
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A sepia view of the Palace of Westminster stretches along the Thames, its lacework Gothic revived in stone and shadow. Victoria Tower anchors the left, the great clock tower to the right, while low skiffs rest on the river’s calm surface. The 1870s perspective preserves London’s seat of government as both architecture and emblem—solemn, ordered, and newly rebuilt for the Victorian age.
