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JOSEPH NASH (1809-78)
Prince Albert’s closing address at the Great Exhibition, 15 October 1851
dated 1852Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour | 32.2 x 48.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 919975
This watercolour was mounted by Victoria and Albert in one of their albums. The Queen wrote in her journal after the closing ceremony that ‘to think that this great & bright time, is past, like a dream … seems incredible & melancholy’.
