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Paxton, Joseph, English Gardener, Architect And Member Of Parlia, Ment, Best Known For Designing The Crystal Palace (1803 1865).

Autograph letter signed.

Rockhill, Sydenham, 20 July 1860.,

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Author
Paxton, Joseph, English Gardener, Architect And Member Of Parlia, Ment, Best Known For Designing The Crystal Palace (1803 1865).
Publishers
Rockhill, Sydenham, 20 July 1860.
Keyword
Autographs: Science
Languages
English

Description

8vo. 2 pp. To Lady Eagerton, explaining that "You can get from here to the [Crystal] Palace to see the fancy fair, & if you like to ask half a dozen gentlemen to come to the dance we shall be happy to see them, they must be at Rockhills by about eight o clock from whence they will be passed to the Ball room [.] . - At the end of the Great Exhibition of 1851 the Crystal Palace was dismantled from Hyde Park and re-erected at Sydenham. Covering eighteen acres and one of the greatest design and engineering feats of the 19th century, it unfortunately burnt down in 1936. Ruskin rather loftily called it a "greenhouse larger than ever greenhouse was built before".