Programmes (20,000+), posters, tickets and handbills, event records, props and souvenirs.
Royal Albert Hall of Arts and SciencesRoyal Charter, publications, artworks and furniture, press cuttings and ephemera.
Royal Albert Hall of Arts and SciencesCatalogues of two exhibitions, 1851-1862: the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the London International Exhibition on Industry and Art, May-November 1862.
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 RSA , Royal Society of Arts x Royal Society of ArtsThirty three paintings dating from c1500-1820 with accompanying contextual records. The subject of the paintings ranges from cathedral and church interiors, Rembrandt's father, Venice, biblical scenes including building the Tower of Babel, the Adoration of the Magi and the Madonna and Child, landscapes, ships, portraits, still lifes, flowers, battle scenes and domestic interiors. The mediums used include oil on canvas, oil on copper and oil on panel. The collection includes one triptych, one alter panel and all other paintings are framed wall paintings.
Pieter Neefs the Elder, Hendrick Van Steenwyck the Younger, The Antwerp Mannerist, The Becerril Master, Jacques de Rousseau, Giacomo Guardi, Frans Francken the Younger, Johannes Lingelbach, Vittore Carpaccio, Jospeh Stannard, Gerrit Van Vucht, Jan Van Goyen, Frans de Momper, Abraham Van Beyeren, Jacob Salomon Van Ruisdael, Gaspar Pieter Verbruggen, Circle of Cornelis de Heem, Adrian Brouwer, Gerrit Heda, Bartholomeus Assteyn, Jacobus Marell, Sebastian Vrancx, Philips Wouvermans, Pieter Franchoys, Willem Duyster, Nicholaes Maes, Pieter de Hooch, Daniel Gardener.