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It included over 13,000 exhibits and was the first international exhibition of manufactured products.  \r\n\r\nThe exhibition attracted more than six million visitors, equivalent to a third of the population of Great Britain.  This watercolour is from a group of images reproduced as colour lithographs in <u>Recollections of the Great Exhibition</u>, a lavish contemporary souvenir guide. The profits from the Great Exhibition were used to fund several science and art initiatives in South Kensington.  They included what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum, whose earliest surviving building was erected in 1857.\r\n\r\nThis view of the East Nave shows objects from the Zollverein, the collective name for the German states belonging to the German Customs Union formed in 1834.  A key exhibit was the massive zinc sculpture of The Amazon by August Karl Eduard Kiss.  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