Cumberland Gate, Hyde Park, watercolour

Cumberland Gate & Keeper’s Lodge, watercolour, circa 1822, artist unknown. The following year the brick arch was taken down and an iron gate and lamppost installed, the lodge improved. In 1851 a triumphal marble arch (which had served as the state entrance of Buckingham Palace and removed to make room for the east wing) was erected on the site, and remains there to this day. The lodge became a privy, relocated amongst the nearby shrubbery.

Cumberland Gate, Hyde Park, watercolour

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