3-034-590 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The French Annexe at the International Exhibition, [London], 1871. Illustration of '...the French annexe, which forms, with the French restaurant, a quadrangle of three galleries and a corridor, inclosing the garden, with its shrubs, its lawn, and its seats in the open air, where half an hour of repose may be agreeably passed, and a cup of coffee, an ice, or a cigar may be obtained by those who need such refreshment. The pictures and sculptures, the bronze statuettes, the tapestry and embroidery, the vases, lamps, decorative furniture, and jewellery which France contributes to this Exhibition will detain the observant visitor some time in the galleries thereto appointed...[Our view] represents the scene at a certain point in the gallery leading to the great conservatory, which adjoins the Royal Albert Hall, on the north side of the Horticultural Society's gardens. This gallery contains many fine works of sculpture, and the general effect, with the trailing plants gracefully adorning the beams of the roof, is exceedingly good'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.