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Hidden : Sunday, September 10, 2017
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Geocache Description:

A meet and greet event while we're on vacation.

Come join us at Trafalgar Square.

2-hobbits will be traveling around Europe on vacation and concluding in London before heading home and would like to meet locals and other travelling cachers. Bring along any geocoins or trackables for discovery or that you would like us to take to Canada.

Location: Trafalgar Square

Date: September 10th
Time: 4:30pm to 6:00pm



Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in central London built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Its height is 52 m. Completed in 1843, the work of architects Edwin Henry Landseer, Charles Barry, William Railton, and Edward Hodges Baily of sandstone, granite and bronze.

Did you know that Nelson's column is guarded by four huge bronze lions sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer in 1868.

Landseer was a notable figure in 19th-century British art, and his works can be found in Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kenwood House and the Wallace Collection in London.

In 1858 the government commissioned Landseer to make four bronze lions for the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, following the rejection of a set in stone by Thomas Milnes. The sculptures were installed in 1867.

So popular and influential were Landseer's paintings of dogs in the service of humanity that the name Landseer came to be the official name for the variety of Newfoundland dog that, rather than being black or mostly black, features a mix of both black and white. It was this variety Landseer popularised in his paintings celebrating Newfoundlands as water rescue dogs.
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Anyway! Talk about off on a tangent...


Trafalgar Square, base of Nelson's Column, west side of the plinth, 4:30 pm. See you there!


Resources:
Wikipedia contributors. Edwin Henry Landseer [Internet]. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2017 Jul 19, 18:33 UTC [cited 2017 Aug 21

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