Plan shewing space allotted to Foreign Countries
Design
c.1851 (made)
c.1851 (made)
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Architectural plan of both tiers of the exhibition space, annotated and colour coded to show the areas assigned to exhibitors from various countries. Lithographic print on paper, with hand colouring and annotations in black ink, backed with linen and lined with a hand-sewn border of red silk, attached with brown cotton thread. Two loops of the red silk are attached to each of the top corners.
Object details
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| Title | Plan shewing space allotted to Foreign Countries (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | printer's ink, pen and ink, watercolour, paper, linen, red silk, brown cotton thread, hand-written, hand-coloured, hand-sewn, backed, lithography |
| Brief description | Plan for the Great Exhibition of 1851, showing the layout of the first and second tiers of the building and the exhibiting spaces allotted to various countries. Lithographic print on paper with hand colouring and annotations in ink, lined with linen and with a hand-sewn red silk trim and hanging loops. British, c.1851 |
| Physical description | Architectural plan of both tiers of the exhibition space, annotated and colour coded to show the areas assigned to exhibitors from various countries. Lithographic print on paper, with hand colouring and annotations in black ink, backed with linen and lined with a hand-sewn border of red silk, attached with brown cotton thread. Two loops of the red silk are attached to each of the top corners. |
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| Credit line | Presented to the Museum by A.S. Cole, Esq. in 1906. |
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| Accession number | PH.333-1906 |
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| Record created | October 2, 2017 |
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