The Great Exhibition 1851

Today we’re going to see what we can find out about The Great Exhibition of 1851…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Daguerreotype of Prince Albert by William Edward Kilburn (1848). Held by the Royal Collection.

The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 by Henry Wyndham Phillips (before 1868). Held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The world's first commercially produced Christmas card, made by artist John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843.

The Great Conservatory at Chatsworth in a 19th century photo taken by Charles Latham; published in Gardens Old & New. The Country House & It’s Garden Environment. Vol. I. Fourth Edition. London: Country Life 1900, p. 112.

Illustrated London News article screenshot from https://iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/185...

View from the Knightsbridge Road of The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851.

"The Crystal Palace" Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 1851: Illustrated Catalogue (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1851, p. xvii) Engraving 1851

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The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851 by Henry Courtney Selous (1851-2). Held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

“The first shilling day - going in” by George Cruikshank; in Cohn, Albert M. "George Cruikshank: A catalogue raisonné of the work executed during the years 1806-1877." From the offices of "The Bookman's Journal," 1924, London. Held by the Boston Public Library.

Screenshot of https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...

Plan of the “Crystal Palace” from https://archive.org/details/planofbui...

McNeven, J., The transept from the Grand Entrance, Souvenir of the Great Exhibition , William Simpson (lithographer), Ackermann & Co. (publisher), 1851, V&A.

McNeven, J., The Foreign Department, viewed towards the transept, coloured lithograph, 1851, Ackermann (printer), V&A. The interior of the Crystal Palace in London during the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Screenshot of https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/colle...

Illustrated London News, 31 May 1851. NAL pressmark: PP.10. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The Koh-i-Noor on display at the Great Exhibition prior to its re-installation. Illustrated London News, 31 May 1851. NAL pressmark: PP.10. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Screenshot of Times, 13 Oct. 1851, p. 5. The Times Digital Archive.

Replica of the Koh-i-Noor diamond at Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/31703/q...

An aerial view of Albertopolis, South Kensington. Photo by: Andreas Praefcke - Self-photographed.

Screenshot of https://royalcommission1851.org/

The Crystal Palace, general view from the Water Temple, photograph taken by Philip Henry Delamotte (1854). Held by the Smithsonian Libraries.

Photograph of “THE HANDEL FESTIVAL AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE” (1887 and 1889). Taken by various photographers for Cassell & Co. (Negretti and Zambra); from The Queen's Empire. Volume 4.

An advertising promotion for the Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace, running from May to October 1911. Illustration in The Graphic, 20th May 1911.

The Crystal Palace on fire on the night of 30 November 1936. It was totally destroyed. Photograph taken on 30 November 1936 by an unknown photographer.

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Quoted texts:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/colle...

Gardner, Jonathan. “1851: Rematerialising the Great Exhibition.” A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012, UCL Press, 2022, pp. 42–84.; p.49

https://www.royalparks.org.uk/read-wa...

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...

Also consulted, were:

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1...

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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