Great exhibition now open, come early [graphic].

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Title: Great exhibition now open, come early [graphic].
Creator: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895, artist
Published / Created: [1851]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from signboard in image.
Artist from original drawings in the British Museum.
Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851.
Design consists of six horizontal rows of small figures, five of the rows having titles etched within them: [The arts and manufactures of] Switzerland; The arts and manufactures of Italy; The arts and manufactures of Germany; The arts and manufactures of China; The arts and manufactures of Scotland.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image or text on right and left sides.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxv, p. 177.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 38.8 x 23.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1851
Etchings England London 1851
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Great Exhibition
Subjects: Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1851
England > London > 1851

Access: Public
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