Tag: Sir Joseph Paxton
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The Crystal Palace
Joseph Paxton’s first sketch for the Great Exhibition Building, about 1850, pen and ink on blotting paper; Victoria and Albert Museum The Crystal Palace at Sydenham (1854) -
Sir Joseph Paxton
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851 Sir Joseph Paxton, gardener, engineer, architect, and designer of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 (aka the first World’s Fair) was born on August 3, 1803.