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.

Title(s):

Additional Title(s):

Comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851

Pictures of the Great Exhibition

Great Exhibition of 1851

Great industrial exhibition of all nations

Published/Created:

London : Dickinson, Brothers, Her Majesty's Publishers, 1854.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ([29] pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates; [29] pages, [28] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 68 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B T 2 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B T 2 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B T 2 Copy 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Full Orbis Record:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/207205

Classification:

Books

Notes:

"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, 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."
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.

Subject Terms:

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

Contributors:

Shaw, Henry, 1850–1928.
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878.
Haghe, Louis, 1806–1885.
Roberts, David, 1796–1864.
Dickinson Brothers (Firm)

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Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

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