Agricultural Implements

Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)

Colour lithograph

published 1854

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection

    The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was an immense international exhibition held in Hyde Park in London from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It took place in a glass building, with a cast-iron frame, designed by Joseph Paxton, which was nick-named the Crystal Palace.


    This lithograph was included in ‘Dickinsons’ Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition’ (1854), published some three years after the Great Exhibition closed. The text and illustrations recollected the many displays and gave a critical analysis of some of the objects included.


    The volume was lavishly illustrated with lithographs after watercolours commissioned by HRH Prince Albert from Joseph Nash, Louis Hague and James Roberts. The original watercolours remain in the Royal Collection today.

  • About the artist
    Louis Haghe was born in Belgium, the son of an architect. He trained under the Chevalier de la Barrière, later becoming his lithographic assistant. In c.1823, Haghe travelled to London, where his lithographs were printed by William Day, with whom he enjoyed a long, successful collaboration. By the 1820s, he had taken up watercolour painting. He later produced tinted lithographs, including 250 for Roberts’s ‘The Holy Land...’ (1842-49). From the 1850s he focused on watercolours. He was President of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (1873-84) and a Knight of the Order of Leopold I. He was also a member of the Academies of Belgium (1847) and Antwerp, and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He died in Surrey at the age of 78.
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    Places
    England, London, Hyde Park, The Crystal Palace
    Subjects
    cart, engine, Victorian Genre, man, woman, 19th century costume, dress, top hat, bonnet, Great Exhibition, gallery, public interior
    Materials & Techniques
    lithograph, colour lithograph
  • Details
    Artist
    Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)
    Title
    Agricultural Implements
    Date
    published 1854
    Medium
    Colour lithograph
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Campden Gallery, 1948
    GAC number
    682