1851: The Great Exhibition Week 2 Exhibiting Industry

1851: The Great Exhibition Week 2: Exhibiting Industry

Jeffrey Auerbach Hermione Hobhouse Paul Young Thomas Richards (Michael Leapman)

Subscriptions raised by selected local committees, adapted from Jeffrey Auerbach, The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 76 Population Total Subscription £ Belfast 99,660 582 Birmingham 232,841 897 Cardiff 18,294 96 Dublin 254,850 406 Glasgow 333,657 2,666 Leeds 172,270 2,030 City of London 127,869 26,632 Maidstone 20,730 74 Manchester 303,382 4,548 Tower Hamlets 510,727 315 Westminster 241,611 7,681

Contracted cost: £79,800 Final cost: £142,780 7s. 6d Contracted cost: £79,800 Final cost: £142,780 7s. 6d. Hermione Hobhouse, The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition (London: Athlone Press, 2002), pp. 38-9

Henry Courtney Selous, The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851 


The Transept from The Great Exhibition (Victoria and Albert Museum, CIS 16297)

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations

‘The Industrious Boy’, Punch, 1850

Dunin’s ‘Man of Steel’

Sportsman’s knife

4 sections: raw materials machinery manufactures fine arts 30 classes (taxonomy).

The Fine Arts Court

The Machinery Court

Moving Machinery

Cotton manufacture