Sydenham Town Forum

J. RUSSELL & SONS. The successor as official photographer to the Crystal Palace, post 1900, was the firm of J. RUSSELL & SONS. They were in time to take advantage of the new craze for picture postcards, and issued many old images of the Palace from the Negretti & Zambra archive, as well...

LONDON STERESCOPIC COMPANY. The only exception to Negretti & Zambra's exclusive right to retail images of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, seems to have been the series of 46 stereoviews published by the LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY, created by Delamotte's assistant THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAMS (1825-...

NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA Portrait Rooms A very interesting article was printed recently in 'Crystal Palace Matters' the journal of the Crystal Palace Foundation, about dating this portraits by the serial numbers, can't remember which issue at the moment. http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2673/portrait1g...

Image 1 Central Transept looking West. Grand orchestra with proscenium arch of 1862 [Prob one image from stereo negative.] Image 2. Central Transept looking East. Intermediate Royal Box ca 1870. [Prob one image from stereo negative.] Image 3. Central transept Looking East. Nadars balloon. 1863. &quo...

NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA Carte de Visite These are photographic prints, mounted on cards the size of visiting cards created from the early 1860's. A good example of these, show the attractions that came to the Sydenham site of the Crystal Palace. Signor Ethardo (1825-1911) https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X...

PHILIP HENRY DELAMOTTE. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RRaQH4juoiQ/Wsob1YWUSrI/AAAAAAAADaE/K7CJde5mUUQMzsl59DjXphs3M8ahVo-ggCLcBGAs/s1600/Science_%2526_Society_Picture_Library_10455597%2Bphilip%2Bdelamotte.jpg The removal of the Crystal Palace building from Hyde Park, and its re-erection at Sydenham, w...

Terry, my old mate, you've covered the Central Transept extremely well indeed! I like your systematic approach--tackled like a real historian. The Jan Piggott book is written from an artistic point of view and doesn't even answer a fraction of the burning questions, but instead creates more unanswe...

THE MAIN AND UPPER GALLERIES. Having now explored the length and breadth of the ground floor of the Palace, we ascend the flight of stairs on the garden side (South), near the Great Transept, that leads to the main and upper galleries." The main galleries are devoted to the exhibition of artic...

CENTRAL TRANSEPT - West/Parade side. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tNZwYNlc98s/Wsm4GGHK6jI/AAAAAAAADVw/-Jozbj48PaQ6WlvoYHrW4TvVqSM-y4yDwCLcBGAs/s1600/erection%2Bof%2Bthe%2Borchestra%2Bfor%2Bthe%2Bopening%2Bceremony%2Bbl.jpg Construction of the auditorium for the Opening ceremony. Delamotte 1854. https...

"A little beyond this is the COURT OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN SCULPTURE which we may enter and explore with advantage." https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ax_x_9Fj0WE/WsmxBCSF56I/AAAAAAAADUg/PN36o9RPz4gHz6Y9ICphnhsWPQL1H6iiQCLcBGAs/s1600/englishgerman.jpg Looking north-west. In this Court is placed a s...

DAY & SON PORTFOLIO. Emerging from the opening that leads to the south side of the Stationery Court, a few steps will bring him once more into the Nave, where he will notice a stand appropriated to the exhibition and printing by the Messrs. Day, of chromo-lithographic views of some of the most ...

The visitor, proceeding round the Stationary Court, from right to left, will find amongst the works of industry exhibited, fancy stationery, books, specimens of ornamental printing, pencil drawings, and other articles of the kind. At the back of this and of the Birmingham Court, or towards the west...

THE CRYSTAL PALACE MEDAL PRESS. As the visitor passes around this Court, let him step out at one of the entrances on the north side, close to which he will find erected “THE CRYSTAL PALACE MEDAL PRESS. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MIaeoeIzJr0/WsmjI1Z_LhI/AAAAAAAADTk/5V7mqnO8GZQFfU7ypmZPamr2c_kjOlDoQC...

THE STATIONERY COURT. The Stationery Court has been designed and erected by Mr. J. G. Crace. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rZvUudae8BM/Wsmf-MWn0MI/AAAAAAAADSw/1kdwAGMfDJcnMPjdZnyw8hzoFnQMinSHgCLcBGAs/s1600/John%2BGregory%2BCrace.jpg John Gregory Crace, seated with his son, and grandson. He was also re...

THE BIRMINGHAM COURT. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ubxp96AkZ6Y/Wsmdbu0uumI/AAAAAAAADSM/kxHplG4K_yc4L1XfJSXESESj8uHQJfmnACLcBGAs/s1600/Birmingham%2BCourt%2B-%2BArt%2BJournal%2BOctober%2B1856.jpg Art Journal 1854 This Court has been designed by Mr William Tite, and the architect has considered that the...

THE SHEFFIELD COURT. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d7fcEdIccGM/Wsl566iqSsI/AAAAAAAADLk/gG9rMJo14BA-YUWiNAe3wCaRFAgHjH_lgCLcBGAs/s1600/exterior%2Bof%2Bthe%2BSheffield%2BCourt.jpg Delamotte 1859 "The architect of this court is Mr. George. H. Stokes [Paxton's son-in-law], whose structure at once com...

THE POMPEIIAN COURT. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLDoBUQYwIU/Wsma0DBlPrI/AAAAAAAADRk/QXAp7J-PXjEKCYOejaReei4paQmY9jBJwCLcBGAs/s1600/pomp.jpg Seventeen hundred and seventy-five years ago, the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, beautifully situated on the shores of the bay of Naples, were buried benea...

OSLER'S CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JamABoX-dfE/WsmZoiHMdqI/AAAAAAAADRI/Ppujb-xAL68ybURIdtVsrmyjrp46q1AKgCLcBGAs/s1600/fountain.jpg Osler’s Crystal Fountain, which occupied so conspicuous a place in the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. On the water which surrounds it, float the gigan...

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/737/269003786.jpg THE NEW WORLD. The first section we come to is devoted to the illustration of the Arctic regions: to the left on entering are placed two polar bears; the skin of the largest having been brought home by Captain Inglefield on his last memorable retur...

THE SCREEN OF KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CN6Eg6VpkcI/WsmX8QqrswI/AAAAAAAADQs/zToGrWUCFxUZiKPL0alRPqO0BbzKV4gpQCLcBGAs/s1600/screen.jpg Photochrom ca. 1925. This screen designed by M. Digby Wyatt, used the original plaster models of the Kings and Queens of England [and C...