The Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of All Nations, by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the 1st of May, 1851: The View is Taken from the South West  Gallery, at the time when the Archbishop is offering up a Prayer for the Divine blessing upon the objects in the Exhibition

The Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of All Nations, by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the 1st of May, 1851: The View is Taken from the South West Gallery, at the time when the Archbishop is offering up a Prayer for the Divine blessing upon the objects in the Exhibition

George Cruikshank, Sir Joseph Paxton, David Bogue, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1851 Print

66.541.55(1)

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