Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace Textile Colour roller print depicting the Great Exhibition building with fashionable visitors in foreground, and decorative floral surrounds, on two sections of woven cotton, six repeated images (the sections at head and foot cropped), framed and glazed, textile overall size 2000 x 600mm., printed by William & George Orme of 62, Frith Street, Soho, c.1851 Footnotes: A rare textile roller print commemorating the Great Exhibition of 1851. The textile is printed in shades of blue, green and ochre and shows the silhouette of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace beneath a blue sky, the foreground populated with fashionable visitors (some in national dress such as eastern/Turkish or Scottish, and including naval and military types, elegant women and children etc.), and an elaborate border of ornamental flowers. The design by Orme appears to be based on the pictorial frontispiece in John Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace (1851). Other examples can be found at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the RISD Museum, Rhode Island (a small section only), and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing