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The Albert Memorial in Hyde Park in London is a monument generally — and not unjustly — considered the perfect symbol of this High Victorian period, more perfect than the Houses of Parliament (in the early sixties at last approaching completion) were of the previous Early Victorian period. — Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Architecture Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1963)

General Information Architect: Sir George Gilbert Scott Designed: 1872 Completed: 1876 (unveiled by Queen Victoria) Height: 180 Feet The Entire Memorial The Albert Memorial (perspective view from right) The Albert Memorial (perspective view from left) The Albert Memorial seen from Hyde Park Rear View Prince Albert Statue of Prince Albert (John Foley) Statue of Prince Albert (John Foley) Statue of Prince Albert, Rear View (John Foley) The Albert Memorial, Central elements The Useful Arts Agriculture (William Calder Marshall) Commerce (Thomas Thornycroft) Manufactures (Henry Weekes) Engineering (John Lawlor) The Continents Asia (John Foley)) Africa () Africa (2) America (John Bell) Europe (Patrick MacDowell) The Canopy and Other Details The Cross and Spire, Albert Memorial Detail of Mauve and Gold Fence Canopy (Clayton and Bell) Mosaic on front of Canopy (Clayton and Bell)

The Frieze of Parnassus Engineers of the Ancient World (Philip) Composers (Armstead) Nineteenth-century French Painters (Armstead) Architects and Sculptors of the ancient world (Philip) Architects from the Middle Ages to the Present (Philip) Sculptors from the Middle Ages to the Present (Philip) Painters (Armstead) Poets (Armstead) Bronze statues at the corners representing intellectual disciplines) Geometry (H.H. Armstead) Physiology (J. Birnie Philip) Rhetoric (J. Birnie Philip) Geology (H.H. Armstead) Astronomy (H.H. Armstead) Related Material The Memorial before restoration (1966): six images Progress of the Prince Consort Memorial in Hyde Park (1865) Henry Reichold's extremely high resolution navigatable image of the memorial

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