The industrial arts of the nineteenth century : a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851 : dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert / by M. Digby Wyatt, architect.
Alternate Title(s):
Cover title, on the five divisions: Industrial arts of the nineteenth century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI
Published / Created:
London : Day and Son, 1851-53.London : Published by Day and Son, lithographers to the Queen, MDCCCLI-1853 [1851-1853].
Physical Description:
2 volumes (xii, [58] pages, [1], 78 leaves of plates; 166 pages, [1], 80 leaves of plates) : color illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:578804
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrated with 158 chromolithographs plus an added chromolithographed title page in each volume.
Exhibition History:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) | Decorative arts -- Exhibitions. | Sullivan, M -- Stamp. | Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832–1910 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs. | Illustrated works.
Contributors:
Gurney, Eliza Paul Kirkbride, 1801–1881. | Barclay, George, printer. | Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894, lithographer. | Sliegh, John, active 1841–1879, lithographer. | Vinter, John Alfred, approximately 1828–1905, lithographer. | Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857, illustrator. | Clayton, John, -1861, illustrator. | Dalziel, Edward, 1817–1905, illustrator. | Dalziel, George, 1815–1902, illustrator. | Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821–1889, illustrator. | Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879, illustrator. | Pidgeon, H. C. (Henry Clark), 1807–1880, illustrator. | Pozzi, W. E., illustrator. | Rafter, Henry, illustrator. | Smallfield, Frederick, 1829–1915, illustrator. | Stevens, Alfred, 1817–1875, illustrator. | Day & Son, publisher, printer of plates. | Ackermann and Co., publisher.
