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Description: | Joseph Nash (1808-1878, British), a draughtsman and lithographer, mainly of architectural views, both interiors and exteriors. Born in Great Marlow, was educated at his father's private school. From 1829 was trained by the architect A.C. Pugin whom he accompanied to Paris to help in preparing drawings for Paris and its Environs (2 Vols, 1830). Published The Mansions of England in Olden Times (3 Vols, from 1832) and The Architecture of the Middle Ages (1838). An associate of the Old Watercolour Society from 1834, a full member from 1842. He exhibited in 1831-79 at the Royal Academy, British Institute, Old Watercolour Society, and New Watercolour Society. He is chiefly remembered for his interior views of the Houses of Parliament, and also of the Great Exhibition of 1851, commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and published by Dickinson Brothers in Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. London, 1854.
Print of the Great Exhibition in 1851. A large building housing numerous exhibitions within it. Visitors to this exhibition walk around in the foreground. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fine arts Men Lithographs Trade exhibitions Women England Architecture Walking Europe London Victorian period Interiors Works on paper Exhibitions Great Exhibition (1851) Great Exhibition People | Temporal: | 1854
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | JOSEPH NASH, DAVID ROBERTS, LOUIS HAGHE | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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