The model houses for families built in connection with the Great Exhibition of 1851, by command of His Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G., president of the Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes

Roberts, Henry, 1803-1876, author, Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes (London, England), issuing body · 1851 · London : Published by request and sold for the benefit of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, at no. 21, Exeter Hall, Strand : also by Seeleys, Fleet Street, and Hanover Street, Nisbet & Co., Berners Street, J.W. Parker and Son, West Strand and Hatchard, Piccadilly · 11 pictures

Henry Roberts, writing for the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, published this London volume in 1851 to present model dwellings for working families shown at the Great Exhibition. The plates are architectural drawings: transverse and longitudinal sections, a back elevation, plans, and details of scullery and chimney construction, with rooms and staircases labelled. A designer might take from them the clean line-and-hatch conventions of 1850s plan and section drawing, and the compact layout of cottage rooms.

Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 · Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) · Great Exhibition · Architecture, Domestic · Working class · Model houses

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