Accession No

2857

Brief Description

print, lithograph, of the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851, by Joseph Nash, English, 1851

Origin

England; London; New Bond Street

Maker

Nash, Joseph [artist and lithographer] Dickinson Brothers [printer and publisher]

Class

prints

Earliest Date

1851

Latest Date

1851

Inscription Date

1851

Material

paper (card); glass; wood

Dimensions

breadth 912mm; height 747mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Peter Delehar, London, England, 07/1982.

Inscription

‘THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1851.
Lithograph by Joseph Nash from his Drawing in the possession of Her Majesty.
Plate 3. The British Nave.
Paris E. Gambart & Cnie. 9, Rue d’Orleans (au marais) DEPOSE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DICKINSON BROTHERS, NEW BOND STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1851 by W. Schaus,
in the Clerk Office of the District Court of the United States for the southern district of New York.’ (bottom of print)

Description Notes

A large colour lithograph engraved by the painter Joseph Nash from his original shows the ‘British Nave’ of the Great Exhibition. Third in a series of prints. Caption slightly faded and white paper spotted and discoloured.
Mounted and framed.

Condition good; complete

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