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Opening of the Great Exhibition of All Nations Collection: SCM - Art Object Name: print; engraving; mezzotint Maker: Bellin, Samuel; Selous, H.C.; Boys, Thomas Shotter Place Made: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Date Made: 1856 Measurements: frame: 955 x 1225 x 30 mm; image: 745 mm x 1050 mm; platemark [sight]: 845 mm x 1087 mm; sheet [sight]: 850 mm x 1120 mm |
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Description: Print, engraving, stipple and mezzotint: Opening of the Great Exhibition of All Nations by Her Majesty Queen Victoria 1851by Samuel Bellin, after the oil by H.C. Selous, published by Thomas Boys 407 Oxford Street, 1856. Image 74.5x105cm in platemark [sight] 84.5x108.7cm on sheet [sight] 85x112cm in frame 95.5x122.5x3cm. The official painting of the opening ceremony. - Placed against background of North Transept of Crystal Palace. Original by Selous in Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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4 Related People | |
| Bellin, Samuel 1799-1893, printmaker; draughtsman, English; British | |
| Boys, Thomas Shotter 1803-1874, artist; topographical painter; watercolour painter; printmaker, English; British | |
| Victoria 1819–1901, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901, empress of India | |
| Albert, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha prince consort of Queen Victoria, 1819-1861 | |
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