Molded and gilt wood frame encloses, under glass, an oil lithograph. Mounted on tan matboard with a gilded outline, the rectangular lithograph has rounded top corners. Wood board backing. 2) Scene inside the glass pavilion with three marble sculptures mounted on red bases.
lithographs
gesso
gilding
lithography
oil paint (paint)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
exhibitions (events)
pavilions (garden structures)
sculpture (visual work)
Unidentified Paper
Gesso
Lithography
Gilded
Oil
Pavilion
Sculpture
Expositions
PICTURE, HISTORIC
Possibly written somewhere on the lithograph: Gems of the great Exhibition of 1851. View ""No.4"".
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
The Great Exhibition
Baxter, G. (Maker)
England
10 x 14.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1559.2
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