Building for the Great Exhibition in London, 1851.Length of Building, 1848 feet, or about 1/3 of a milte or about the [parallel text in French]
Lith. de Becquet frères Maçons Sorbonne 5
Paris, Tharin, édit. rue du Temple, 63
Coloured lithograph with fine colour, printed area 200 x 480mm (8 x 19"), large margins.
Unusual long view emphasising the tremendous length of the Crystal Palace, erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Designed by the landscape gardener and architect Joseph Paxton (1803-65) and contractor Sir Charles Fox (1810-74) who both received knighthoods for their efforts. At the close of the exhibition Paxton campaigned for keeping the building in Hyde Park as a winter garden. The public were generally in favour of its retention in Hyde Park but Prince Albert wished the building moved, and the directors of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway floated a company to buy the materials and re-erect the building at Penge Park, near Sydenham, Kent. The project was an investor's nightmare but proved a great popular success.
[Ref: 41208] £280.00
Paris, Tharin, édit. rue du Temple, 63
Coloured lithograph with fine colour, printed area 200 x 480mm (8 x 19"), large margins.
Unusual long view emphasising the tremendous length of the Crystal Palace, erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Designed by the landscape gardener and architect Joseph Paxton (1803-65) and contractor Sir Charles Fox (1810-74) who both received knighthoods for their efforts. At the close of the exhibition Paxton campaigned for keeping the building in Hyde Park as a winter garden. The public were generally in favour of its retention in Hyde Park but Prince Albert wished the building moved, and the directors of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway floated a company to buy the materials and re-erect the building at Penge Park, near Sydenham, Kent. The project was an investor's nightmare but proved a great popular success.
[Ref: 41208] £280.00