The Illustrated London News offered a visual guide to the exhibition, gallery by gallery, which showed that despite its organization according to many different national and other categories, the Great Exhibition frequently placed works of Western, often British, sculpture directly next to displays from India, Turkey, Japan, and China. Unlike the more precise renderings of the Art Journal, which provide a record of the exhbition detailed enough to convey a good idea of many items, the guide provided free by The Illustrated London News renders many statues very, very crudely. Its artists were much better depicting contemporary clothing. — GPL [scans by PVA]
Visitors to the Exhibition
Plates of the Exhibitions
- Sculpture displays in front of the Indian Pavillion
- Portion of the South Transept [India]
- South-East Portion of the Nave [France]
- Grand Panorama [Belgium]
- Grand Panorama
- Grand Panorama [India]
- Grand Panorama [Sculpture and Freshments]
- [Chinese and Japanese Goods]
- [Turkey and Persia
- Gold Medal Presented to Members of the Organizing Committee
- [Tunis and Switzerland]
- [India] South and North Portion of the Transept
Bibliography
The Illustrated London News (6 March 1852): 1.
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