The Egyptian Court

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Artist/Maker	Unknown (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (published)

Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, depicting the interior of the Egyptian Court at Crystal Palace. Each lettered with title and 'Interior of the Crystal Palace At Sydenham'. Numbered '4'. The lettering of the titles to plates 7 and 8 is only partly visible, due to trimming. These titles are also inscribed in pencil in a later hand.

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Categories	Prints Great Exhibition
Object type	Lithograph
Titles	The Egyptian Court (assigned by artist) Interior view of The Crystal Palace in Sydenham (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone Paper Lithography
Brief description	Anonymous lithograph depicting the interior of the Egyptian Court at The Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Great Britain, ca. 1854.
Physical description	Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, depicting the interior of the Egyptian Court at Crystal Palace. Each lettered with title and 'Interior of the Crystal Palace At Sydenham'. Numbered '4'. The lettering of the titles to plates 7 and 8 is only partly visible, due to trimming. These titles are also inscribed in pencil in a later hand.
Dimensions	Height: 24.5 cm Width: 19cm Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line	Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Production	The prints may derive from illustrations in M.Digby Wyatt, Views of the Crystal Palace and Park Sydenham, 1854.
Subjects depicted	Egyptian Courts Exhibitions Great Exhibition
Place depicted	Crystal
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	SP.682:1

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Record created	July 1, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1105627/the-egyptian-court-lithograph-unknown/

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