Granite Collection (page 4)

Surfacing a road with granite setts, Paris, c1900. Liebig trade card

Standing and Reclining Buddha, 12th century, Gal-Vihara, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. (20th century). Artist: CM Dixon
Standing and Reclining Buddha, 12th century, Gal-Vihara, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. (20th century). Cut from rock-face, during the regn of King Parakramabahuin in the 12th century

Dartmoor Ponies and Granite Tor, Kestor Rock, Dartmoor, Devon, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Dartmoor Ponies and Granite Tor, Kestor Rock, Dartmoor, Devon, 20th century. A particularly hardy breed of pony with excellent stamina

Longships Lighthouse and the Armed Knight, Lands End, Cornwall, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Longships Lighthouse and the Armed Knight, Lands End, Cornwall, 20th century. Lands End is a headland and the most westerly point of mainland Cornwall

Granite Cliffs below Lands End mine, Cornwall, England, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Granite Cliffs below Lands End mine, Cornwall, England, 20th century. Lands End is a headland and the most westerly point of mainland Cornwall

Tsars Winter Palace, Yalta, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Tsars Winter Palace, Yalta, 20th century. Livadia Palace was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family

Boscawen-Un Stone Circle near St. Buryan, Penwith, Cornwall, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Boscawen-Un Stone Circle near St. Buryan, Penwith, Cornwall, 20th century. A Bronze age stone circle consisting of 19 upright stones made of grey granite and one of bright quartz, in an ellipse

Corries in the Black Cuillin Hills, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Corries in the Black Cuillin Hills, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 20th century. A corrie, is the Scottish term for the French word Cirque used to describe a valley, land formed by glacial erosion

The Black Cuillin and Loch Scavaig near Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
The Black Cuillin and Loch Scavaig near Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 20th century. The peaks of the Black Cuillin are mainly composed of gabbro

Changing Guard at Lenins Tomb, Red Square, Moscow, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Changing Guard at Lenins Tomb, Red Square, Moscow, 20th century. Armed police and military guards at doorway to mausoleum and resting place of Vladimir Lenin

The Turoe Stone, 1st century
The Turoe Stone, a celtic stone in La Tene art style, 1st century

Spinsters Rock, a Neolithic chamber-tomb. Note the large crystals in the granite rock. It collapsed in 1858, and was reconstructed in a slightly different form

Awkana Buddha, a colossal statue
Awkana Buddha, a c. 12 metre high colossal statue at Awkana in Sri Lanka, cut from the solid rock face

The Castlestrange Stone, 1st century
The La Tene style Castlestrange Stone, from County Roscommon in Ireland, apparently a pagan Celtic religious object, 1st century

Granite sculpture from Vigeland Gardens in Oslo, 19th century
Granite sculpture from Vigeland Gardens in Oslo, sculped by Gustav Vigeland, 19th century

Granite monolith from Vigeland Gardens in Oslo. Artist: Gustav Vigeland
Granite monolith from Vigeland Gardens in Oslo, sculped by Gustav Vigeland

Relief on granite sarcophagus of Anubis, Memphis, Egypt, Middle kingdom period
Detail from Relief on granite sarcophagus of Anubis in the form of a jackal, Memphis, Egypt, Middle kingdom period

Cross-section of the Brocken, Harz Mountains, Germany, showing geological strata, 1823. From Nature Displayed by Simeon Shaw. (London, 1823)

Granite statue of a seated Ancient Egyptian scribe, from Karnak, 17 / 18th dynasty, c1500 BC
Granite statue of a seated Ancient Egyptian scribe, from Karnak, 17/18th dynasty, c1500 BC

Nefertiti, queen and wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, Ancient Egyptian, 14th century BC. Sandstone bust. Nefertiti reigned from 1353-1336 BC

Champ-Dolent Menhir, thirty feet high, from Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany

Base of the Suvorov Monument, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Base of the Suvorov Monument, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Detail. The monument, sculpted by Mikhail Kozlovsky in 1801, depicts Russian general Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800) as a youthful Mars

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