3-003-950 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The main entrance of the International Exhibition building, [London], 1861. 'The picture galleries along the Cromwell-road front are in a very forward state, that on the east being floored and its walls boarded throughout. The towers at the eastern end are having their top lights fixed, and the roofing of the corresponding ones at the other end are nearly completed. The roof also over the central entrance, which will here form an attic story, has been began. We give an Engraving of this entrance as it will appear when completed. The general effect is pretentious and showy, but heavy'. The International Exhibition of 1862, or the Great London Exposition, was a world's fair held from 1 May to 1 November 1862, beside the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, London, on a site that now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.