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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

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.

Object Number:  1988-1468

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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