Sheffield Hardware
Print
1851 (printed and published)
1851 (printed and published)
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| Place of origin |
This lithograph shows an interior view of the Great Exhibition in 1851. The venue was the purpose-built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, central London. The display included a wide variety industrial design products from around Britain and the world.
Here you can see the exhibition space for hardware from Sheffield, including iron fireplaces. Most of the British regions contributed enthusiastically to the exhibition. Local committees promoted and supported it. They gave advice on lodgings and travel arrangements to daytrippers. An estimated one million of the six million visitors came from outside London.
Here you can see the exhibition space for hardware from Sheffield, including iron fireplaces. Most of the British regions contributed enthusiastically to the exhibition. Local committees promoted and supported it. They gave advice on lodgings and travel arrangements to daytrippers. An estimated one million of the six million visitors came from outside London.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Sheffield Hardware (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Print showing a view of the Great Exhibition, 1851 |
| Physical description | print showing the Sheffield Hardware exhibition space in the Great Exhibition of 1851 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Sheffield Hardware. Published by Dickinson Brothers, 114 New Bond Street' |
| Production | probably 1851 |
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| Summary | This lithograph shows an interior view of the Great Exhibition in 1851. The venue was the purpose-built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, central London. The display included a wide variety industrial design products from around Britain and the world. Here you can see the exhibition space for hardware from Sheffield, including iron fireplaces. Most of the British regions contributed enthusiastically to the exhibition. Local committees promoted and supported it. They gave advice on lodgings and travel arrangements to daytrippers. An estimated one million of the six million visitors came from outside London. |
| Bibliographic reference | Expo 2010 Shanghai China. World Exposition Museum ISBN: 9787532140503. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 19537:6 |
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| Record created | November 3, 2003 |
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