Between May and October 1851, The Great Exhibition attracted about 40,000 daily visitors, for a total of six million guests. Following the conclusion of the Exhibition, the Crystal Palace was ...

Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Work on Crystal Palace began on August 1, 1850 and, defying skeptics, Joseph Paxton completed the magnificent structure just in time for ...

On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition. By the time it closed on October 15 it had attracted more than six million people, nearly a third of the population.

This image first appeared in Henry Mayhew’s 1851 or The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to ‘Enjoy Themselves,’ and to See the Great Exhibition (London: David ...

The Great Exhibition opens in London’s Hyde Park. ... Running May 1 to Oct. 15, 1851, the Great Exhibition housed around 14,000 exhibitors visited by some 6 million people.

Yet there was no disorder among the crowds swelling London, nor any in the Crystal Palace, even when, on October 7, 1851, 109,000 people came through the building, many having arrived by ship from ...

The Great Exhibition. Share full ... See the article in its original context from October 16, 1851, Page 2 Buy ... who served on one of the Juries of the Great Industrial Exhibition in London, ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.; ... The Blunders of the Commissioners--Small Attendance Compared with 1851--Peculiarities of the Exhibition--The Japanese. Share full article. June 2, 1862.

1848 work illustrates the Queen’s Old Castle department store and is estimated at €2,500 says Des O’Sullivan. We use it to support, suppress, hide and expose our bodies. Underwear ...

Scroll 11 1/2 x 263 3/4 in. (29 x 670 cm), panels ca. 11 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (29 x 52 cm) Digital files suitable for publication and exhibition reproductions are available for purchase. Please contact ...

The Great Exhibition Road Festival will feature more than 150 events from museums, galleries, concert halls and research centres, inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851.