Desktop Background Images - London Statuary

The images on this page are all photographs taken in London in April of 2002. Click here to get to the top of this set of background image pages.

Some notes are probably in order:

1. Except as noted, none of the images are distorted (i.e. if your pixels are square then you're seeing the image in the correct aspect ratio).
2. These images are Copyright © 2002 Daniel Boulet. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to use these images in any context as long as the copyright notice on each image is intact and visible.
3. The 1280x1024 images aren't quite the same as the other sizes due to the obvious fact that 1280x1024 is a 5x4 aspect ratio whereas the others are 4x3.

If you use any of these images for commercial purposes or display them on your WWW site, please include a reference back to http://www.bouletfermat.com/backgrounds/.

Here's an 800x600 photo of the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Westminster Square which is, appropriately enough, just across the street from the British House of Commons. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

Here's an 800x600 photo of the same Churchill statue from a different angle. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

Here's an 800x600 photo of a statue of Sir Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister in 1868 and again from 1874 to 1880. He was appointed the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. This statue is also in Westminster Square. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

Although not exactly a statue, we can't get this close to Big Ben without taking a picture of the famous clock (Big Ben is the name of the clock, not the name of the tower). Here's an 800x600 photo of Big Ben. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

At almost exactly the location that the Big Ben photo was taken from, we find this sculpture of Boadicea - Queen of the Icena by Thomas Thornycroft. She died in A.D. 61 after leading her people in a revolt against the Romans. Here's a short history of Boadicea and the rebellion that she led and here's a web page focused on the monument in the photograph. Her name is sometimes spelled Boudicca. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

Here's an 800x600 photo of the same statue taken from a different angle. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

If you cross the Thames at this point then you'll come to the statue of the Southbank Lion (located at the very south end of the Westminster Bridge). Here's a 800x600 photo of the Southbank Lion statue. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.