Online Exhibition: The Great Exhibition 1851
Waiting for Queen Victoria to open the Great Exhibition
Frontispiece for Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2 volumes, 1854.
Published by Dickinson, Brothers, Her Majesty's Publishers of New Bond Street. The lithographic illustrations were reproduced from originals painted by Nash, Haghe and Roberts (RA).
The Inauguration
The sky was described as a cloudless "Italian" blue.
