Inscribed 'taken around 1851' in a later hand Probably by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner.

Crystal Palace monumental Egyptian sculpture, a pair of seated deities with processional way of small sculptures of Anubis within a hall. Behind there is a semicircular window and upper galleries of glass and steel. Statues are presumably copies as they appear to be painted.

Dr. BILLING MD. MA. FRS. Died 1881 age 90

Crystal Palace interior view with an avenue of sculptures on plinths, classical in style. possibly casts. An arcade of arches in the interior.

A stereoscopic daguerreotype taken by Henry Negretti and Joseph Zambra, showing an interior view of the sculpture court with large decorative urn. After housing the Great Exhibition in 1851 the Crystal Palace had been dismantled and rebuilt on a site at Sydenham, south east London, reopening in June 1854. The 'Palace of the People' as it became known, was at first a huge success as the world's first 'theme park'.