The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 toy Essex Buildings

Essex Buildings

A community of Indian seamen grew up in the Docklands areas of Stepney

This lithograph is from Examples of London and Provincial Architecture of the Victorian Age in a supplement to the 1862 International Exhibition

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Dr Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith

The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 toy Essex BuildingsThe Great Exhibition: India No. 7, 1852. Chromolithograph. John Tallis' widely read History and Description of the Crystal Palace described India as Britain's pre eminent colonial possession and the source of 'priceless treasures'. However, while acknowledging the value of India to Britain, the author denigrates the 'tributes' sent to the exhibition as 'glittering toys' and examples of 'wasteful and ridiculous excess'. The prejudices expressed in the