The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/16 x 9 5/16 in. (12.8 x 23.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1963
Accession Number
63.698.6(9)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 1850s satire with *The Great Exhibition "Wot to Be"*, a clever wood engraving by George Augustus, credited alongside the fictional "Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in Their Places." on the eve of London's Great Exhibition of 1851 world's first international fair held in the groundbreaking Crystal Palace—this print pokes fun at the mounting hype. The sprawling title promises a cheeky preview of "probable results from the "industry of all nations," imagining chaotic displays of global wares, exhibitors, and innovations in a comically overcrowded scene...
About the Artist
George Augustus Sala|Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in Their Places (British|British) · 1828 |1840 –1895 |1860
British, London 1828–1895 Hove|London