Stevengraph picture - st104: The Crystal Palace

by Austin Sprake:
The exterior view of the famous building, with green gardens and flower beds coloured red and yellow.

by Geoffrey Godden:
A landscape view of the exterior of the Crystal Palace - the building of the Great Exhibition of 1851 - originally built in Hyde Park but later moved to Sydenham, where it served for many years as a popular exhibition hall with fine ornamental gardens. It was destroyed by fire in 1936.
The subject was first included on label 21+10 of c. 1886. The early issues are found with card-mounts of type B2. Later ones have card-mounts of type C or E.

Other comments:
This silk is complementary to "The Interior" [st 108 on this site]

Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
st 104	STG131	9

Words:	Woven on silk:- Printed at bottom of card-mount:- The Crystal Palace.
Size:	card-mount: 15.1cm deep by 22.3cm wide silk: 5.8cm high by 13.6cm wide
Comments:	by Austin Sprake: The exterior view of the famous building, with green gardens and flower beds coloured red and yellow. by Geoffrey Godden: A landscape view of the exterior of the Crystal Palace - the building of the Great Exhibition of 1851 - originally built in Hyde Park but later moved to Sydenham, where it served for many years as a popular exhibition hall with fine ornamental gardens. It was destroyed by fire in 1936. The subject was first included on label 21+10 of c. 1886. The early issues are found with card-mounts of type B2. Later ones have card-mounts of type C or E. Other comments: This silk is complementary to "The Interior" [st 108 on this site]

THE CRYSTAL PALACE

FRONT VIEW