Eiffel Tower
Item
- Title
- Eiffel Tower
- Creator
- Gustave Eiffel (French architect and engineer, 1832-1923)
- City
- Paris, France
- Address
- Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France
- GPS
- 48°51'29.9"N 2°17'40.4"E
- Country
- France
- Date Created
- 1887-1889
- Century
- 19th Century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- belle époque
- Cultural Context
- European
- Materials
- iron
- Techniques
- exposed frame construction
- Subject
- structural iron
- wrought iron
- industrial exposition
- observation
- Exposition universelle de 1889
- European art
- Description
- partial view, exterior view
- Commission was awarded by competition
- the competition sought a plan for a monument for the International Exposition of 1889, celebrating the centenary of the French Revolution. The tower is built almost entirely of open-lattice wrought iron. It was the entrance gateway to the exposition.
- Source
- Michael Peters
- Photographer
- Michael Peters
- Rights Holder
- © Michael Peters
- © Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
- Item sets
- Michael Peters Collection
Gustave Eiffel (French architect and engineer, 1832-1923), “Eiffel Tower”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 12, 2026, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/42925