The Great Exhibition of 1851
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations
“The tremendous cheering, the joy expressed in every face, the vastness of the building, with all its decoration and exhibits, the sound of the organ... all this was indeed moving.” - (Queen Victoria,1851)
On the 1st of May of 1851 began what would be the first exhibition in Great Britain, following the steps of the French, celebrating the industrial technology and design around the world. The Exhibition took place on - the now destroyed - Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park, London and it lasted until the 15th of October of the same year. It was planned by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Henry, George Wallis, Charles Dilke and ...
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if it would be financed by the private section, or by the public. At first, they had no choice, without the public, they had to go on with only the private funds, however after facing a great struggle (Prince Albert would only establish a Royal Commission if he had the public support for this project), they decided to take the project to public contractors, Messrs James and George Munday, who agreed to do it under certain conditions.
They successfully established the Royal Commission on January of 1850, but had to terminate the contract with James and Munday, due to the press being against the funding of a public and national building through the private sector. The society had no choice but making the project to a public and national responsibility.
In the end, it was decided that the Great Exhibition was to be funded by the people with voluntary donations. As we can see “whilst the City of London contributed £26,632, Bradford contributed £1,605, Glasgow £2,666 and ...
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stands loaded with the most gorgeous work of the goldsmith and silversmith, and the carefully guarded caskets full of real diamonds and pearls worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. It may be called a bazaar or a fair, but it is such a bazaar or fair as Eastern genii might have created. It seems as if only magic could have gathered this mass of wealth from all the ends of the earth – as if none but supernatural hands could have arranged it this, with such a blaze and contrast of colours and marvellous power of effect. The multitude filling the great aisles seems ruled and subdued by some invisible influence. Amongst the thirty thousand souls that peopled it the day I was there not ...
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