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William Deane Butler and

Edmund Walker, 'Owen Jones's

decoration of the transept of

the Great Exhibition'

William Deane Butler and Edmund Walker, 'Owen Jones's decoration of the

transept of the Great Exhibition', 1850. Museum no. AL.8270

William Deane Butler (18??-57) and Edmund Walker (18??-82)

Owen Jones's decoration of the transept of the Great Exhibition

1850

Watercolour

Museum no. AL.8270

Jones submitted this as one of two paintings which formed part of the final

approval process for his design for the decoration of the Crystal Palace interior.

Inspired by the use of primary colours in ancient Egypt and Greece, and at the

Alhambra, he intended the colour scheme to form a 'neutralised bloom'.

Commentators at the time compared the beauty of this 'hazy indistinctness' to

the paintings of Turner.

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William Simpson, 'Owen Jones's design for the interior of

the Great Exhibition'

William Simpson, 'Owen

Jones's design for the interior

of the Great Exhibition', 1850.

Museum no. 546-1897

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William Simpson, 'Owen Jones's design for the interior of the Great Exhibition'

William Simpson (1823-99)

Owen Jones's design for the interior of the Great Exhibition

1850

Watercolour

Museum no. 546-1897

Jones submitted this as one of two paintings which formed part of the final approval process for his design for the decoration of the Crystal

Palace interior. Inspired by the use of primary colours in ancient Egypt and Greece, and at the Alhambra, he intended the colour scheme to

form a 'neutralised bloom'. Commentators at the time compared the beauty of this 'hazy indistinctness' to the paintings of Turner.

Jones believed that colour should help define 'form' within architecture. He used primary colours to distinguish between the Crystal Palace's

numerous iron columns and to create a sense of depth and perspective. The central fabric hangings shown in the William Simpson

watercolour never materialised, but they would have complemented the hanging carpets in creating the atmosphere of an eastern bazaar.

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Philip Henry Delamotte, 'The Alhambra Court at the

Crystal Palace

Philip Henry Delamotte, 'The

Alhambra Court at the Crystal

Palace, Sydenham', 1854.

Museum no. 39:315

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Philip Henry Delamotte, 'The Alhambra Court at the Crystal Palace

Philip Henry Delamotte (1821-89)

The Alhambra Court at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham

1854

Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative

Museum no. 39:315

After the Great Exhibition closed, the Crystal Palace was re-erected in south London as a permanent venue for education and entertainment.

Its focus shifted away from contemporary manufactures and towards 'best' examples of historical design. Jones was one of the people

responsible for designing a series of 'Fine Arts Courts', which included an Egyptian, Greek, Roman and even an Alhambra Court, as shown

here.

These courts were created so that visitors could take a journey through the finest examples of architectural and design history. Jones's

seminal design sourcebook, 'The Grammar of Ornament', published in 1856, could be considered as the Sydenham Crystal Palace in

expanded book form. The publication employed chapters instead of physical architectural courts, and crucially had the capability of reaching a

much wider audience, acting very much like a 'mobile' museum of design.

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