Item Summary

Consists of 12 mounted albumen prints of the Crystal Palace as re-erected at Sydenham in the early 1850s. Photographs are of uniform size (5 1/4 x 3 3/4").

Descriptive Information

Title
Photographs of the Crystal Palace.
Call Number
2008-0064S
Identifier
ark:/88435/2b88qn67w
Publisher
[London : Negretti and Zambra, ca. 1855]
Language
English
Date Created
1855
Extent
[12] leaves : ill. (photographs) ; 14 x 17 cm.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. Interior
2. Exterior view, transept
3. Exterior view showing fountains and tower
4. Exterior view, fountains
5. Interior view
6. Interior, Alhambra court
7. Interior, Gothic court
8. Interior, Pompeiian court
9. Interior, Sculpture gallery
10. Interior, Rennaissance court
11. Interior, Romanesque court
12. Interior, Egyptian court.
Notes
Cover title.
First leaf blank; last photograph on rear pastedown.
Photographs by P.H. Delamotte, printed by Negretti and Zambra.
Binding Note
In green pebble-grain cloth with title stamped in gold on upper cover.

Discovery Information

Subject
Crystal Palace (London, England)—Pictorial works
Albumen prints—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
28

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cb533daf-3759-417e-8797-58b3ef59c5a8/manifest