French Machinery
This celebration of progress--iron and glass architecture and steam engines shown in powerful perspective--records the displays in the Palace of Industry at the 1855 Universal Exposition in Paris. This world's fair of art and technology was the French response to the gauntlet thrown down by the British at the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace in London.
Artwork Details
- Title: French Machinery
- Artist: Charles Thurston Thompson (British, Peckham 1816–1868 Paris)
- Date: 1855
- Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative
- Dimensions: 22.0 x 28.7 cm (8 11/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.5030
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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