Joseph Paxton Collection

Crystal Palace, Sydenham, c. 1862 (colour litho)
STC228031 Crystal Palace, Sydenham, c.1862 (colour litho) by Martinet, Achille-Louis (1806-77); Private Collection; (add.info)

Exterior of the north transept of the Crystal Palace, London, built for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Conceived by Prince Albert

The interior of The Crystal Palace
5307883 The interior of The Crystal Palace.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the interior of The Crystal Palace (the Main Avenue) during the Great Exhibition of 1851

The interior of The Crystal Palace
5307880 The interior of The Crystal Palace.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the interior of The Crystal Palace (the Main Transept) during the Great Exhibition of 1851. Dated 19th century

Music Saloon recently erected at Scarborough, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Music Saloon recently erected at Scarborough, 1858. The Scarborough Cliff Bridge Company have provided an additional attraction to the visitors of that beautiful watering-place by the erection of a

Banquet given at the Crystal Palace by Sir Joseph and Lady Paxton, 1860. Creator: Smyth
Banquet given at the Crystal Palace by Sir Joseph and Lady Paxton, 1860. Sir Joseph and Lady Paxton gave a charming fete at their beautiful residence, Rockhills, adjoining the Crystal Palace

Banquet given at the Crystal Palace by Sir Joseph and Lady Paxton, 1860. Creator: Smyth
Banquet given at the Crystal Palace by Sir Joseph and Lady Paxton, 1860. Sir Joseph and Lady Paxton gave a charming fete at their beautiful residence, Rockhills, adjoining the Crystal Palace

Return of the Army Works Corps from the Crimea, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Return of the Army Works Corps from the Crimea, 1856. Mechanics and labourers at Waterloo Station in London. The Army Works Corps...originated in a suggestion made by Sir Joseph Paxton

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Raising the Ribs of the Transept Roof, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Raising the Ribs of the Transept Roof, 1850. The extraordinary resources of the contractors of the "Crystal Palace" have had no fitter occasion

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Moving a Pair of Transept Ribs... 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Moving a Pair of Transept Ribs, Framed Together, Previous to Hoisting, 1850. When the frame of double ribs is moved to its horizontal position above

The New Victoria Regia House - Exterior, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The New Victoria Regia House - Exterior, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 1850. A lecture was given at the Society of Arts in London...by Mr

Manufacture of Glass for "The Crystal Palace"...Birmingham, 1850. Creator:s Read
Manufacture of Glass for "The Crystal Palace", at Messrs. Chance's Works, Spon-Lane, near Birmingham, 1850. Workers making an...immense quantity of plate glass required for

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Gutter-Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Gutter-Cutting Machine, 1850. It must be borne in mind, that, besides the rain-water gutter in the top of the timber

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Painting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Painting Machine, 1850. View of...the sash-bar painting apparatus...One of the sash-bars is occasionally passed between the brushes, to keep them clean

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Testing the Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Testing the Girders, 1850. This is effected by means of the hydraulic press invented by Mr

Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850....the exterior of the pay-office is seen on the right, with a workman in the act of taking from the box his weekly wages

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. View of...the operations of punching bolt-holes in the bars of iron, and cutting off the ends by the shears

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. One of Nathan Gough's four-horse vertical high-pressure engines is used for giving motion to the drilling

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Base of Column, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Base of Column, 1850....the construction of drainage is shown

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Glazing the Roof, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Glazing the Roof, 1850....three bays, each eight feet wide, and co-extensive with one 24-feet trussed girder, are clearly shewn

The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - the Transept - (Looking North), 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - the Transept - (Looking North), 1850. View of...the stately trees for whose especial protection the transept was added to Mr

The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works, 1850. The scene on the ground is one of infinite bustle, and yet order

The Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works - (Looking East), 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works - (Looking East), 1850. In the view of the Building Works looking East - which was taken from an elevated position on the south side of

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. View of...the large crane, by which the cast-iron girders are unloaded from the waggon - one of Pickford's in the present

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. The machinery requisite for this twofold operation is fixed on a long deal bench, breast-high from the floor

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. The timbers to be planed by the machine are placed on the top of a traversing stage

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Plane - Showing Cutter, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Plane - Showing Cutter, 1850. We were informed that this...is only the second machine of the kind which has been put up. It is patented by W

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Adze, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Adze, 1850. View of...a solid two-armed stout iron stock; to the end of each arm is attached an adze, 10½ inches long, and 4½ inches wide

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. As in every other part of the works the utmost skill is displayed with regard to economising power

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Portion of the South Front, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Portion of the South Front, 1850. The South Front of the "Industrial Palace" towards the Kensington-road...when completed

The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850....we find a communication from Mr. Paxton on this subject, dated 13th March, 1840, in which he says that

Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. The progress of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, next year

Visit of...Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park... 1850. Creator: Unknown
Visit of His Royal Highness Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the "Parting Cheer", 1850

Design by Joseph Paxton, F.L.S. for a Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Design by Joseph Paxton, F.L.S. for a Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851, 1850. The Crystal Palace was a prefabricated cast iron and glass building designed by Joseph Paxton

Ground Plan of the Building for the Great Industrial Exhibition, to be erected in Hyde-Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ground Plan of the Building for the Great Industrial Exhibition, to be erected in Hyde-Park, [London], 1850. The plot of ground...is on the south side of Hyde-park

Great Exhibition, 1851 (coloured engraving)
611314 Great Exhibition, 1851 (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Great Exhibition, 1851.); Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection; English

The great Chatsworth Conservatory - the interior, from the Central Walk, 1844. Tropical plants inside the enormous glasshouse at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire....the specimens from the lofty

The International Exhibition: section of a Paxton lean-to vinery, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: section of a Paxton lean-to vinery, 1862. Improved greenhouse technology. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

Opening of Baxter Park Dundee 9th September 1863, 19th century (colour litho)
6198852 Opening of Baxter Park Dundee 9th September 1863, 19th century (colour litho) by McFarlane, William Husband (1805-75); 28.5x48.8 cm; The McManus, Dundee

Punch cartoon: Praise and Pudding: Prince Albert rewarding Joseph Paxton for designing the Crystal Palace to house
6034668 Punch cartoon: Praise and Pudding: Prince Albert rewarding Joseph Paxton for designing the Crystal Palace to house the successful Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park

Joseph Paxton, Esquire, FLS, Architect of the Crystal Palace (engraving)
1625568 Joseph Paxton, Esquire, FLS, Architect of the Crystal Palace (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Joseph Paxton, Esquire, FLS)

Design by Joseph Paxton, FLS, for a Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851 (engraving)
1096646 Design by Joseph Paxton, FLS, for a Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Design by Joseph Paxton, FLS)

Sanitarium designed by Joseph Paxton, FLS, for the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest
1101990 Sanitarium designed by Joseph Paxton, FLS, for the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria-Park (engraving) by English School

Exhibitors and visitors in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, venue of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (engraving)
5238903 Exhibitors and visitors in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, venue of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (engraving) by Gilbert

Arrival of goods to be exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London (engraving)
5238899 Arrival of goods to be exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London (engraving) by Gilbert

Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace (engraving)
609897 Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Joseph Paxton)

Praise and Pudding (engraving)
609895 Praise and Pudding (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Praise and Pudding; His Royal Highness Prince Albert - Master Joseph Paxton)

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Joseph Paxton was a renowned architect and horticulturist, best known for his iconic design of the Crystal Palace. This magnificent structure, located in Sydenham, became an emblem of Victorian innovation and grandeur. In 1851, Prince Albert rewarded Paxton for his exceptional work by presenting him with a pudding in a humorous Punch cartoon. Paxton's talent extended beyond the Crystal Palace; he also designed the impressive Chatsworth Conservatory in 1844. The interior of this conservatory showcased Paxton's visionary approach to architecture and his deep understanding of botanical environments. His architectural prowess was further demonstrated through his design for the Great Exhibition building in Hyde Park. This ambitious project aimed to bring together exhibitors from all over the world under one roof. Exhibitors and visitors alike marveled at the vastness and beauty of the Crystal Palace during this historic event. Paxton's contributions were not limited to exhibition spaces alone; he also designed a sanitarium for the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in Victoria Park. His innovative designs always pushed boundaries while ensuring functionality and aesthetic appeal. The opening of Baxter Park Dundee in 1863 marked another milestone in Paxton's illustrious career. His influence on urban planning can be seen through this park's layout, which provided green spaces for public enjoyment amidst bustling city life. Joseph Paxton will forever be remembered as an architect who revolutionized Victorian architecture with his groundbreaking designs such as the Crystal Palace. His legacy lives on through these remarkable structures that continue to inspire awe even today.