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Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 /
from the originals painted for H.R.H. Prince Albert, by Messrs. Nash, Haghe and Roberts, R.A. ; published under the express sanction of His Royal Highness Prince Albert, president of the Royal Commission, to whom the work is, by permission, dedicated.
Comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Pictures of the Great Exhibition
Great Exhibition of 1851
Great industrial exhibition of all nations
London :
Dickinson, Brothers, Her Majesty's Publishers,
1854.
2 volumes ([29] pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates; [29] pages, [28] leaves of plates :
color illustrations ;
68 cm
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With 55 colour lithographs of views of the interior of the Crystal Palace and various sections of the Great Exhibition; some exterior views. Each view is accompanied by a letter-press description.
"Mostly printed in five colours, they were subsequently coloured by hand to provide either additional hues or depth of tone to the printed colours. Varnish was also applied in places to provide further richness to an image."--Twyman.
Twyman, M. History of chromolithography,
131
Friedman, J. Color printing in England, 1486-1870,
161
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860,
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107432851
251
BAC : "Henry Vizetelly, printer and engraver."
BAC : British Art Center has 3 copies. Copy 1 is in parts with the original wrappers. Copy 1 has advertisements on the back wrappers. Copy 1 retains the protective envelopes in which parts 1-3 were packaged; these envelopes are labelled Sir W. Middleton, Bt., Whitehall. Copy 2 is the Abbey copy and is bound in one volume by M.M. Holloway. In copy 2 the frontispiece is the plate entitled "Central view of the exterior of the building."
BAC: Copy 3 is in 2 volumes in a publisher's binding, with a separate t.-p. to vol. 2. The plates in copy 3 are proofs. The frontispiece to vol. 1 is entitled "Waiting for the Queen." The frontispiece to vol. 2 is entitled "The transept."
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Great Exhibition
(1851 :
London, England)
Shaw, Henry,
1850-1928.
Nash, Joseph,
1809-1878.
Haghe, Louis,
1806-1885.
Roberts, David,
1796-1864.
Dickinson Brothers (Firm)
Exhibited in:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870
(Yale Center for British Art,
April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
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View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1673162
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