The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 Z1014/1(6) Suffragette stand at The Women's

Suffragette stand at The Women's Exhibition of 1909

Full length portrait of Baron Frederick Leighton

A watercolour

This Bankside wharf was the site of Southwark Corporation's rubbish depot when George Davison Reid took this photo

The Great Exhibition India No. 7 1852 Z1014/1(6) Suffragette stand at The Women'sThe Great Exhibition: India No. 7, 1852. Chromolithograph. John Tallis' widely read History and Description of the Crystal Palace described India as Britain's pre eminent colonial possession and the source of 'priceless treasures'. However, while acknowledging the value of India to Britain, the author denigrates the 'tributes' sent to the exhibition as 'glittering toys' and examples of 'wasteful and ridiculous excess'. The prejudices expressed in the