Richard Doyle - Journey to the Great Exhibition - Germany - Soldiers, burghers, and students support a huge pipe inscribed with the motto Unity - 1851
London's Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was held in 1851 at the Crystal Palace, a huge glass-and-cast-iron hall specially erected in Hyde Park. International displays devoted to art, technology, and manufacturing delighted six million visitors over a five-month period. Humorist Richard Doyle commemorated the multinational character of the event with a panoramic wood engraving that gently makes fun of the participants. Eight panels approach nine feet in length when fully opened, but fold neatly into cardboard covers and can be viewed a few at a time. This fourth scene representing Germany echoes recent political upheavals. Soldiers, burghers, and student support a huge pipe inscribed with the motto "Einheit" (Unity), in reference to the crises of 1848–largely unsuccessful attempts to consolidate the disparate German states. Doyle used a medley of stereotypes to comment ironically on the fair's vaunted internationalism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York
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