A View of Crystal Palace in Hyde Park
1850
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This watercolour shows a famous iron-and-glass building in London. Edmund Walker painted it in 1850, one year before the Great Exhibition opened inside. The Crystal Palace was a wonder of early industry. Six million visitors walked through its enormous halls in 1851. After the show, the building was moved and later burned in 1936. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum online next.
