This rare concertina-style panorama of c.1865 made £1400 in a Dominic Winter (19.5% buyer’s premium) sale of December 15. Condition was not of the best, but the saleroom could not trace another copy at auction.
Fab feats at Crystal Palace
Illustrated here are two of the 20 hand-coloured litho plates, many showing the Crystal Palace in the background and each with a rhyming couplet below, that make up Blondin’s Marvellous Feats.