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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 watercolour shows the Russian Court. The Russian Court included furniture made of malachite, a bright green mineral, by the St Petersburg firm of Demidoff. The large porcelain vase in the middle of the display is by the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory of St Petersburg.  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