View from Kensington Gardens, looking down the King's Road

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Artist/Maker	Ackermann & Co. (publisher) Brannan, Phillip (draughtsman (artist)) Carrick, R. (lithographer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (printed and published)

This image shows the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, during the Great Exhibition in 1851. Here you can see visitors to the exhibition in Kensington Gardens. More than six million people visited the Crystal Palace. Up to one million travelled by rail. They stayed overnight in lodgings in London and had picnics in the park surrounding the Crystal Palace.

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Categories	Prints Access_to_Images 2003 SCRAN Scotland Great Exhibition
Object type	Print
Title	View from Kensington Gardens, looking down the King's Road (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Lithograph
Brief description	Print, showing an exterior view of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, 1851
Physical description	print, showing an exterior view of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, 1851
Dimensions	Unframed height: 30.5cm Unframed width: 47.7cm
Marks and inscriptions	'View from Kensington Gardens, looking down the Kings Road. Published June 9th 1851 by Appointment to Ackermann & Co, 96 Strand by Appointment to the Queen, H.R.H. Prince Albert and the Royal Family. Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen.'
Subject depicted	Great Exhibition
Places depicted	Crystal Palace Hyde Park London
Summary	This image shows the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, during the Great Exhibition in 1851. Here you can see visitors to the exhibition in Kensington Gardens. More than six million people visited the Crystal Palace. Up to one million travelled by rail. They stayed overnight in lodgings in London and had picnics in the park surrounding the Crystal Palace.
Bibliographic references	Expo 2010 Shanghai China. World Exposition Museum ISBN: 9787532140503. Julius Bryant, ed. Art and Design for All. The Victoria and Albert Museum London: V&A Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9781851776665.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	19632

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Record created	November 11, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85507/view-from-kensington-gardens-looking-print-brannan-phillip/

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