The Great Exhibition 1851: India No. 4

Joseph Nash was commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to recreate forty-three images from the Great Exhibition. The purpose of the reproduction was to create chromolithographs that could be sold to the public to raise profit for the South Kensington Museum. Sitting in the centre of the image is the howdah lent that was presented to Queen Victoria by Nawab Nazim of Bengal.

Medium: Watercolor, bodycolour, and Pencil

Measurements: 33.0 x 48.2 cm

https://www.rct.uk/collection/919942/the-great-exhibition-india-no-4