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Paxton
Bust of Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), designer of the Crystal Palace. It is situated in Crystal Palace Park, London SE19, England.
William Woodington made the large sculpture in 1873, from Carrera marble. The brick plinth is 8 feet (2.4 metres) high.
The 200-acre (80-hectare) park was the home of the Crystal Palace from 1854 to 1936, when it burnt down. The iron-framed glass buildings had previously enclosed the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.
The park is home to Britain's National Sport Centre, as well as containing woods, fields, Italianate terraces, ponds, tennis courts, a maze, an outdoor auditorium, a collection of life-sized model dinosaurs and, formerly, a motor racing circuit. In it are sited two television transmitter masts.
Joseph Paxton was a successful and famous gardener, garden designer and architect. While head gardener at Chatsworth, the Derbyshire country estate of the Duke of Devonshire, he designed fountains, greenhouses and a model village.
He based the modular, prefabricated design of the Crystal Palace buildings on the structure of the leaf of a South American water lily.
Paxton later designed Mentmore House in Buckinghamshire and Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris, France. For the last 11 years of his life, he was a Member of Parliament.
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William Woodington made the large sculpture in 1873, from Carrera marble. The brick plinth is 8 feet (2.4 metres) high.
The 200-acre (80-hectare) park was the home of the Crystal Palace from 1854 to 1936, when it burnt down. The iron-framed glass buildings had previously enclosed the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.
The park is home to Britain's National Sport Centre, as well as containing woods, fields, Italianate terraces, ponds, tennis courts, a maze, an outdoor auditorium, a collection of life-sized model dinosaurs and, formerly, a motor racing circuit. In it are sited two television transmitter masts.
Joseph Paxton was a successful and famous gardener, garden designer and architect. While head gardener at Chatsworth, the Derbyshire country estate of the Duke of Devonshire, he designed fountains, greenhouses and a model village.
He based the modular, prefabricated design of the Crystal Palace buildings on the structure of the leaf of a South American water lily.
Paxton later designed Mentmore House in Buckinghamshire and Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris, France. For the last 11 years of his life, he was a Member of Parliament.
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