The Crystal Palace (updated)

The Crystal Palace attracted different visitors form different levels of society. It was a cast ion and glass structure designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and it was bilt in Hyde Park London for the Great Exhibition. 

The Great Exhibition joined more than 14,000 exhibits from all over the world the exhibition displayed many examples from the technology that was developed in the industrial revolution. It was than destroyed by fire. 

• During the 1850′s the word Victorian began to started to be used to express a new consciousness of the industrial era’s spirit, culture and moral standards.
• Prince Alpert convinced the idea of the great exhibition with hundreds of exhibits from all industrial nations.
• This became the Great Exhibition of 1851 also know as the Crystal Palace Exhibition
• This Crystal palace was an important summation of the progress of the Industrial Revolution
• It was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton
• The Crystal Palace was a 75,000 square meter, steel, and glass exhibition hall which remains a landmark in the architectural design.
• Victorian graphic design captured the values of the era
• Idealized beauty was expressed through painted images of children, maidens, puppies, and flowers
• Victorian popular graphics was chromolithography this was an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc pg 162

References

Philip B. meggs. and Alston W. Purvis.eds., 2012. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Fifth Edition. Hoboken Canada: John Wiley & Sons,Inc.