print
- Museum number
- 1901,1105.53
- Title
- Object: The Crystal Palace and Gardens
- Description
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View of the gardens at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, in 1854; visitors inspecting five large models of dinosaurs on riverbanks in the foreground, ornamental fountains in the mid-distance, the Palace (without towers) beyond. 1854
Baxter process
- Production date
- 1854
- Dimensions
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Height: 183 millimetres (mount)
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Height: 112 millimetres (print, cropped)
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Width: 254 millimetres (mount)
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Width: 159 millimetres (print, cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The cropped print is pasted onto a mount stamped with Baxter's blind-stamp.
See Courtney Lewis or reg. no. 1889,0816.28 for full lettering. According to Courtney Lewis, in some catalogues Baxter described this print as 'Baxter's Gems of the Crystal Palace. No. 3. The Exterior and Gardens, from the Railway.'
See also 1889,0816.28
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2019 8 May-16 Sep, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Prehistory and Modernity
2009 Jun-Oct, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Endless Forms
2009 Feb-May, New Haven, Yale Center Brit Art, Endless Forms
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Great Exhibition 1851
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1105.53