The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 Z1014/1(6) Full length portrait of Baron

Full length portrait of Baron Frederick Leighton

her head and shoulders hang out of the side window

Moonlight view of Trafalgar Square from the balustrade on north side and looking south-east down Whitehall

Custom House

George's Church

The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 Z1014/1(6) Full length portrait of BaronThe Great Exhibition: India No. 7, 1852. Chromolithograph. John Tallis' widely read History and Description of the Crystal Palace described India as Britain's pre eminent colonial possession and the source of 'priceless treasures'. However, while acknowledging the value of India to Britain, the author denigrates the 'tributes' sent to the exhibition as 'glittering toys' and examples of 'wasteful and ridiculous excess'. The prejudices expressed in the