Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London Size:M: 90 x 40cm Mr Corbet's school

Mr Corbet's school

in Lombard Street

A Slipper seller dressed in a turban and long robes outside Somerset House on the Strand

Lady Dacre

The woman's pose travesties the words of the quotation from Sir Walter Scott

Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London Size:M: 90 x 40cm Mr Corbet's schoolPanoramic view of the Great Exhibiton of 1851, held at Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. The upper half shows exhibitions of mixed fabrics and shawls and flax, with stairs to the north gallery; the lower half shows exhibits from Zollverein, North Germany and Russia. Also shown are people looking round the exhibits, or in the gallery above.