International Exhibition of 1862
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gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:World's_Fair
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
gptkb:London_International_Exhibition
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gptkbp:annualVisitors |
over 6 million
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gptkbp:architect |
gptkb:Captain_Francis_Fowke
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gptkbp:area |
21 acres
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gptkbp:closed |
1 November 1862
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gptkbp:country |
gptkb:United_Kingdom
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gptkbp:demolished |
1863
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gptkbp:followedBy |
gptkb:Exposition_Universelle_(1867)
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
International Exhibition of 1862
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gptkbp:location |
gptkb:South_Kensington,_London,_England
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gptkbp:material |
iron, glass, brick
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gptkbp:notableExhibit |
gptkb:Bessemer_steel_process
over 28,000 first plastic (Parkesine) artworks by Albert Joseph Moore artworks by Alexandre Cabanel artworks by Dante Gabriel Rossetti artworks by Edward Burne-Jones artworks by Edward Poynter artworks by Eugène Delacroix artworks by Ford Madox Brown artworks by Frederic Leighton artworks by George Clausen artworks by George Frederic Watts artworks by Gustave Courbet artworks by Henry Moore artworks by James McNeill Whistler artworks by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot artworks by Jean-François Millet artworks by Jean-Léon Gérôme artworks by John Atkinson Grimshaw artworks by John Brett artworks by John Collier artworks by John Everett Millais artworks by John Frederick Lewis artworks by John Lavery artworks by John Singer Sargent artworks by John Tenniel artworks by John William Godward artworks by John William Waterhouse artworks by Lawrence Alma-Tadema artworks by Rosa Bonheur artworks by William Holman Hunt artworks by William Powell Frith artworks by William Quiller Orchardson artworks by Édouard Manet early submarine cable |
gptkbp:notableGuest |
gptkb:Benjamin_Disraeli
gptkb:Charles_Darwin gptkb:Charles_Dickens gptkb:Florence_Nightingale gptkb:Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel gptkb:Joseph_Paxton gptkb:Michael_Faraday gptkb:Queen_Victoria gptkb:Sir_William_Thomson_(Lord_Kelvin) gptkb:William_Gladstone gptkb:Sir_Edwin_Landseer gptkb:Sir_George_Grove gptkb:Sir_John_Tenniel gptkb:Sir_Joseph_Whitworth gptkb:Sir_William_Siemens gptkb:Sir_Charles_Wheatstone Sir Charles Barry Sir George Gilbert Scott Sir Henry Cole Prince Albert Edward (later Edward VII) |
gptkbp:opened |
1 May 1862
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gptkbp:organizedBy |
gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Arts
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gptkbp:precededBy |
gptkb:The_Great_Exhibition_(1851)
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gptkbp:purpose |
to showcase industry, technology, and art from around the world
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gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:International_Exhibition,_London_1862
gptkb:International_Exhibition_1862 |
gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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