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The Great Exhibition
of 1851 introduced a decade that saw the publication of many of
the most impressive chromolithographed books. In this ambitious
work, Matthew Digby Wyatt aimed to illustrate some of the finest
objects on display at the Exhibition 'by the best means of graphic
representation available in the present day'. Twenty artists were
commissioned to provide the drawings, which were lithographed by
highly skilled craftsmen such as Francis Bedford and John Sleigh,
and printed by Day and Son. This illustration of the crystal fountain
was one of 160 plates published in 40 fortnightly parts between
October 1851 and March 1853.
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