CRYSTAL PALACE

Original Albumen print from the glass negative, showing Joseph Paxton's enormous structure built for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park and relocated to Sydenham in 1854, 8" x 5½", Crystal Palace, no date but circa

The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. After the exhibition, the Palace was relocated to an area of South London known as Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill, an affluent suburb of large villas. It stood there from June 1854 until its destruction by fire in November 1936. It was reopened by Queen Victoria on 10th June 1854.

Item Date:  1880

Stock No:  41437      £225

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