Brannon, Philip, 1817-1890, The park and the Crystal Palace , 1851
- Title(s):
- The park and the Crystal Palace : presenting a complete series of exterior views, displaying the beautiful combinations of that magnificent structure with the surrounding scenery / drawn by Philip Brannon, artist & author of The picture of Southampton, The strangers guide to Netley Abbey, Geology simplified & ilustrated.
- Published/Created:
- London : Published June 9th, 1851, by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 1851.
- Physical Description:
- [2] pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B D 9 Copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B D 9 Copy 2Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B D 9 Copy 3Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/578681
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- At head of title: Dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness, Prince Albert.
Tinted lithographs throughout, including title opening.
Lithography by Thomas Picken, Robert Carrick, and W. L. Walton; after Philip Brannon.
The two pages of letterpress describe the seven scenes depicted.
Plates printed by Day & Son.
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 244
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is bound in publisher's original tan paper wrappers. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper. Lithographs are uncolored.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary half leather (rebacked) and brown cloth. Hand-colored lithographs. Imperfect: lacks plates II and III.
BAC: British Art Center copy 3 bound in contemporary green half roan and green cloth. Plates folded. Hand-colored lithographs. - Subject Terms:
- Crystal Palace (Great Exhibition, 1851, London, England)Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
- Form/Genre:
- Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1851.
- Export:
- XML
- [Lithographed title page with three views]
- View from the north bank of the Serpentine
- View from above the bridge
- View from Kensington Gardens, looking down the Kings Road
- View of the south side, from near the Princes Gate, looking west
- The East End
- Looking over the dam.
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