Sujet

Building for the Great Industrial Exhibition, to be erected in Hyde-Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Building for the Great Industrial Exhibition, to be erected in Hyde-Park, [London], 1850. One of several designs for what came to be known as the 'Crystal Palace', designed by Joseph Paxton: '...a faithful representation of what this monster edifice will be when built, though representations and words will give to the mind no idea of the enormous space in length and width the building will cover...we should observe, that, for the sake of showing the building, we have removed a row of trees skirting the carriage-drive in the Park, but in reality they will not be touched. The simple massive character of the design made for the great building contrasts oddly with the praises lavished by the building committee on certain drawings sent in competition, especially on those executed by foreigners...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_466

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

19,4Mo (1,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 11,6cm / 4960 x 1368 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors park building London England glass event architecture British dome palace location Victorian century Britain newspapers press exhibition crystal palace B&W engraved engraving Hyde Park 19th century black & white black and white B W Kensington Kensington and Chelsea nineteenth century The Print Collector cultural event Great Exhibition 1851 Illustrated London News TGN architectural drawing ILN outside newspaper landscape Unknown Sir Joseph Paxton Paxton Joseph Paxton Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations domed Joseph Sir Joseph 19th-century Great Exhibition of 1851