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Title: 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
Artist:
George Cruikshank (British, London 1792–1878 London)
Architect:
Sir Joseph Paxton (British, Bedfordshire 1803–1865 Sydenham)
Publisher:
David Bogue (British, active London, 1807/8–56)
Sitter:
Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
Sitter:
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (German, Coburg 1819–1861 Windsor)
Sitter:
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (British, 1769–1852)
Date: 1851
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 11/16 in. (31.8 × 50 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number: 66.541.55(1)
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