Boudica Statue, Westminster - London, Britain Postcard

Postcard: London treasures - Boudica, was a queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. A status of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot (historically furnished with scyafter the Persian fashion) was by Thomas Thornycroft over the 1850s and 1860s with the encouragement of Prince Albert, who lent his horses for the model. Thornycroft measured the head separately in 1864. It was cast in bronze in 1902, 17 years after Thornycroft's death, by his son Sir John, who presented it to the London County Council. They erected it on a plinth on the Victoria Embankment next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, inscribed with the following lines from Cowper's poem: "Regions Caesar never knew, Thy posterity shall sway." England/London - travel/beauty series. Original Photography/Art/Design by work4dream.