The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be": or Probable Results of the Industry of all Nations in the Year '51. ....by Vates Secundus.
SALA, George Augustus. The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be": or Probable Results of the Industry of all Nations in the Year '51. ....by Vates Secundus. 22 leaves, joined in an accordion style, illustrated with a hand-coloured lithographic panorama by G. A. Sala. c.133 x 5460 mm. fold. to 133 x 240 mm., in the original boards with mounted illustrated cover, housed in a tan linen box with red label. London: Published by the Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in Their Places, 1850.
An outrageous survey of fictional exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851, produced in the preceding year. A cheaper, uncoloured, version was also issued. The long procession of the arts and manufactures of various nations includes: a man naked save for spurs, tricorn hat, and nose ring, dubbed "A specimen of the Costume of the Sandwich Islands, a chief will attend in full dress"; Lord Palmerston appearing as Cupid; images of cannibals in New Zealand exhibiting "specimens of the art of cookery in that remote region"; caricatures of Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Alexis Soyer; and an image of a slave and slave owner with a cat o'nine tails.
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