View of Western Nave
A photograph of the western nave of the Crystal Palace, taken by Claude-Marie Ferrier in 1851. The photograph shows the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, designed by Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) to house the Great Exhibition.
Volume IV of 'Reports by the Juries' (1852), part of a four-volume work on the contents of the Great Exhibition, illustrated with photographs by Claude-Marie Ferrier and Hugh Owen (1804-1881). Only 140 presentation sets of this work were produced, to be given to notables of those countries which participated in the exhibition.
This set 'one of 15 copies given by the Royal Commissioners to H F Talbot Esq. of Lacock Abbey as the inventor of this branch of the Photographic Art. Was by him presented to his beloved cousin Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot'.
A photograph of the western nave of the Crystal Palace, taken by Claude-Marie Ferrier in 1851. The photograph shows the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, designed by Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) to house the Great Exhibition.
A photograph entitled 'Statue of Her Majesty (Zinc)', taken by Claude-Marie Ferrier in 1851. The statue of Queen Victoria, cast in zinc by the Vieille-Montagne Zinc Mining Company was on display at the Great Exhibition.