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(18)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 19th-century satire with *The Great Exhibition "Wot to Be"*, a wood engraving created in 1850 by George Sala, in collaboration with the fictional "Committee of the Society for Things in Their Places." compact print, measuring just 5 1/16 x 9 5/16 inches, captures the buzz surrounding London's Great Exhibition of 1851 world's first industrial fair, held in the revolutionary Crystal Palace. Sala, a prolific journalist and illustrator, skewers the era's industrial optimism with a playful title that promises to reveal "wot is to be" exhibited by all nations. The a...
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