Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London mb-artist Thomas_Fairland Illustration of Two wax flowers

Illustration of Two wax flowers

and a church spire in the distance

Bartholomew Close

In this section Shakespeare's Globe Theatre can be seen below the right-hand group of cherubs

and water vessels on the River Thames

Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London mb-artist Thomas_Fairland Illustration of Two wax flowersPanoramic view of the Great Exhibiton of 1851, held at Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. The upper half shows exhibits from the United States of America and Russia; the lower half shows an exhibition of cotton goods, with a passage to machinery. Also shown are people looking round the exhibits, or in the gallery above.