The Great Exhibition Vol 4 | A Documentary History | Geoffrey Cantor |

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The Great Exhibition Vol 4

ABSTRACT

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part V|102 pages

Visitors’ Accounts

part |28 pages

French And German Perceptions Of The Exhibition

chapter |12 pages

‘Letters of M. John Lemoinne’, in [Anon.], The Great Exhibition, and London in 1851. Reviewed by Dr. Lardner, &c. (1852)

chapter |14 pages

‘A German’s Letters from London to Friends at Home’, The Expositor (1851)

part |14 pages

An American In London

chapter |1 pages

Elihu Burritt’s Journal, 1851, extract

chapter |7 pages

Elihu Burritt’s Letters to Anna M. Southall, 1851, extract

chapter |6 pages

Elihu Burritt’s Speech to the Peace Congress, in Report of the Proceedings of the Fourth Peace Congress, Held at Exeter Hall, London, on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th July, 1851 (1851)

chapter |2 pages

Wanderings In The Crystal Palace ([1851])

chapter |14 pages

Mr & Mrs John Brown’s Visit To London To See The Grand Exposition of All Nations ([1851])

part |28 pages

Fictional Accounts Of The Exhibition

chapter |18 pages

[William Henry Smith], ‘Voltaire in the Crystal Palace’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1851)

chapter |8 pages

‘A Vision in the Crystal Palace’, Illustrated London News (1851)

part VI|220 pages

Perspectives On The Exhibition

chapter |8 pages

‘Ion’ [George Jacob Holyoake], ‘Progress of the People: The Workman and the Exhibition’, The Leader (1851)

part |16 pages

Who Will Benefit From The Exhibition?

chapter |2 pages

[Anon.], ‘What the Richer Are We?’ [editorial], The Expositor (1851)

chapter |3 pages

[Anon.], ‘How to Get On. A Royal Day for Working Men’ [editorial], The Expositor (1851)

chapter |4 pages

[Anon.], ‘A Word to our Brethren the Operatives, as to their Present Position, and their Chances of Bettering Themselves’ [editorial], The Expositor (1851)

chapter |6 pages

[Anon.], ‘Thoughts on the Great Exhibition’, Monthly Christian Spectator (1851)

part |30 pages

Contrasting Religious Interpretations

chapter |10 pages

The Great Exhibition an Opportunity to Promote the Glory of God. A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Rochester, on Sunday, May 4, 1851 (1851)

chapter |8 pages

[Anon.], The World’s Great Assembly ([1851])

chapter |10 pages

The Unity of Race, with its Correlative Claims: Thoughts Suggested by the Great Exhibition (1851)

part |32 pages

Contrasting Attitudes to Taste and Design

chapter |14 pages

‘Supplementary Report on Design’, in Reports of the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided (1852), extract

chapter |14 pages

[Anon.], ‘Ecclesiological Aspect of the Great Exhibition’, The Ecclesiologist (1851)

part |48 pages

The Contributions of Sheffield and India

chapter |19 pages

[Anon.], ‘Sheffield Contributions to the World’s Fair’, Illustrated Exhibitor ([1852])

chapter |24 pages

[Anon.], ‘India and Indian Contributions to the Industrial Bazaar’, Illustrated Exhibitor ([1852])

chapter |24 pages

‘On The Vegetable World as Contributing to the Great Exhibition’, in Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue: The Industry of All Nations 1851 (1851)

part |20 pages

Cultural Comparisons and Contrasts

chapter |6 pages

[Anon.], ‘On the Products of Industry of Aboriginal Races at the Great Exhibition’, Colonial Intelligencer and Aborigines’ Friend (1850–2)

chapter |10 pages

[Charles Dickens and Richard Horne], ‘The Great Exhibition and the Little One’, Household Words (1851)

chapter |32 pages

‘The Great Exhibition – What It Is’, Hogg’s Instructor (1851)

part |8 pages

Encounters With Nude Statuary

chapter |6 pages

[Anon.], [Editorial], Morning Chronicle (1851)

chapter |1 pages

[Anon.], ‘Rochfort Clarke’s “Sermons in Stone”’, Punch (1851)

part VII|101 pages

Closing Ceremony and Assessments

part |16 pages

The Closing Ceremony

chapter |14 pages

[Anon.], ‘Final Closing of the Great Exhibition’, Illustrated London News (1851)

chapter |1 pages

‘Close of the Great Exhibition’ [engraving], Illustrated London News (1851)

part |26 pages

Attitudes Towards The Closure of the Exhibition

chapter |4 pages

[Anon.], ‘Our Last Look at the Great Exhibition’, The Appeal (1851)

chapter |8 pages

‘Wanderings in the Crystal Palace’, Art-Journal (1851)

chapter |4 pages

‘Thoughts on the Closing of the Crystal Palace’, The Friend (1851)

chapter |2 pages

[Anon.], ‘Lines to be Recited on the Closing of the Exhibition’, Punch (1851)

chapter |1 pages

‘Closing of the Exhibition’ [cartoon], Punch (1851)

chapter |1 pages

‘Heads of the People on the Removal of the Crystal Palace’ [cartoon], Punch (1851)

chapter |1 pages

‘Praise and Pudding’ [cartoon], Punch (1851)

part |14 pages

Continuing Controversies

chapter |6 pages

‘Last Words on the Exhibition’, Reynolds’s Newspaper (1851)

chapter |6 pages

[Anon.], ‘The Great Exhibition Awards (Second Notice)’, Illustrated London News (1851)

chapter |14 pages

[Anon.], ‘The Great Exhibition: A Thanksgiving Service At Exeter Hall’, In The Great Exhibition. Forty-Four Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall … Selected From The Penny Pulpit ([1851]), Extract

part |8 pages

What is to Become of Paxton’s Palace?

chapter |6 pages

What Is to Become of the Crystal Palace? (1851)

chapter |1 pages

‘An Appeal to the Public’ [cartoon], Punch (1851)

chapter |19 pages

‘General Bearings of The Great Exhibition’, in Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851: Delivered Before The Society of Arts Manufactures And Commerce at The Suggestion of H. R. H. Prince Albert (1852)