The Lion of Lucerne, Switzerland
The Lion of Lucerne, Switzerland. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820-21 by Lukas Ahorn, the statue commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution. The American writer Mark Twain (1835-1910) praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world. The lion is carved into a cliff face in a former sandstone quarry, and measures a staggering ten meters in length and six meters in height
Picture No
11096459
Media ID
46710419
Size
5605px x 3583px
(1.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910s
