Images from M. Digby Watt’s “The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. From various folios issued between 1851 and 1853. Collections of the New York Public Library.

The Amazon. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8fe5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Embroidery in Bullion from Tunis. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8fe8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Specimens of Turkish Embroidery. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8fee-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
A group of objects in glass – cut and engraved. Consisting of an engraved claret, and cut cream jug by Green of London – a Venetian champagne and an engraved ale glass by Bacchus of Birmingham – and an engraved claret glass and cut salt cellar by Apsley Pellatt of London. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8ff6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Cassette” carved in ivory, exhibited by Matifat of Paris. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8ff9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Black lace flounce, (Nottingham manufacture) by Greasely and Hopcroft. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-9002-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
 Metal bedstead, by Winfield of Birmingham. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-900e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
A Chinese looking glass in carved wood frame. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-9019-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Pianofortes by Collard and Collard of London. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-901e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Coventry ribbon, and specimens of ribbons from Saint Etienne, France. Chromolithograph from Sir M. Digby Watt’s The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry held in 1851. Collections of the New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-901f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99