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First Thoughts for the Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851

First Thoughts for the Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851, Sir Joseph Paxton, 1850. Museum no. E.575-1985

First Thoughts for the Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851

First Thoughts for the Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851
Sir Joseph Paxton (1801-1865)
Britain
1850
Ink on blotting paper
Width 28 cm x height 39.4 cm
Museum no. E.575-1985

Blotting paper is unsized. As a result it draws the ink into its matted fibres. causing the richness and lack of definition of the image.