The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition illustrated..
An 1876 Philadelphia illustrated survey of the Centennial International Exhibition, compiled by Earl Shinn, Walter Smith and Joseph M. Wilson for an American audience, with engraved plates of selected exhibits. The four pictures here are sideways-printed engravings: a classical garland-decorated scene, a medieval hall with a fireside and crowded figures, a street scene of ragged children and adults, and a rider with a dog on a city boulevard, showing dense tonal crosshatching and strong figure groupings a designer could borrow for period compositions.
