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NASH, Joseph.
Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851, from the Originals Painted for H.R.H. Prince Albert, by Messrs Nash, Haghe, and Roberts...
'This deluxe edition was created to commemorate the 1851 exhibition in the Crystal Palace. Great Britain's Prince Albert had proposed a trade exhibition like no other before it, truly international, with the work of nearly 14,000 exhibitors from twenty-six nations on view. To house such an event, Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) designed a new type of building, using the latest in cast-iron and glass technology. Sited in London's Hyde Park, the landmark structure, 1848 feet long by 408 feet wide, was visited by more than six million people in the exhibition's five months. Public feeling for the temporary building was so strong that it was re-erected in South London, in enlarged form, the year that these volumes appeared. Fire destroyed the Crystal Palace in 1936. Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures document the pomp and ritual in this resplendent space, and the exhibits 'from European bourgeois furnishings and modern machinery to an Arab tent from Tunis, draped with leopard and lion skins.' Very fine proof impressions of Dickinson's views of the 1851 Great Exhibition - the first world exhibition and one of the defining moments in modern technology.
- Published
- [London: Dickinson Brothers, 1854].
- References
- Abbey Scenery 251 (smaller format work); OCLC 54269186 (one copy); Bobins 881.
- Plates
- 55
- Binding/Size
- XL=elephant folio
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- [London: Dickinson Brothers, 1854].
- Ref
- 5525
Two volumes in large folio, title, list of subjects, leaf of text to each plate. Fifty-five chromolithographed plates mostly unsigned. A lovely visual recording of this colourful and important event for London, and the remarkable glass erection, the Crystal Palace, which came to epitomise innovative English architecture of the mid-nineteenth century. This event is always closely associated with Prince Albert, the Prince Consort. The Great Exhibition was a significant turning point in British global influence. This was the first international exhibition of manufactured goods and products and was enormously influential in developing many aspects of society, including art and design education, international trade and relations, and even tourism. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. (All proof copies.) 1. Waiting for The Queen. 2. The Inauguration. 3. Greece. 4. Russia. 5. North Germany. 6. Holland. 7. Belgium. 8. Austria No.1 9. Austrian Sculpture. 10. Zollverein. 11. Octagonal Room. 12. France No.1 13. France No.2 14. France No.3 15. France No.4 16. Spain & Portugal. 17. Switzerland. 18. Italy. 19. Sweden & Denmark. 20. Tunis No.1 21. Tunis No.2 22. Tunis No.3 23. Turkey No.1 24. Turkey No.2 25. China. 26. America. 27. Foreign Nave. Volume 2. All proof copies. 28. The Transept. 29. General View of the Exterior of the Building. 30. India No.1 31. India No.2 32. India No.3 33. India No.4 34. India No.5 35. India No.6 36. India No.7 37. Colonial Produce. 38. Guernsey and Jersey, Malta and Ceylon. 39. Canada. 40. Mediaeval Court. 41. Stained Glass Window. 42. Agriculture. 43. Sheffield Hardware. 44. Hardware. 45. Furniture. 46. Woollen. 47. Flax. 48. Furs. 49. Moving Machinery. 50. Machinery. 51. Minerals. 52. Liverpool (cotton). 53. Exterior. 54. The British Nave. 55. Closing Ceremony.
