1851

An instrumental mixtape inspired by the late Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition.

"[...] It is a wonderful place – vast, strange, new and impossible to describe. Its grandeur does not consist in one thing, but in the unique assemblage of all things. Whatever human industry has created you find there, from the great compartments filled with railway engines and boilers, with mill machinery in full work, with splendid carriages of all kinds, with harness of every description, to the glass-covered and velvet-spread stands loaded with the most gorgeous work of the goldsmith and silversmith, and the carefully guarded caskets full of real diamonds and pearls worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. [...]"
— Charlotte Brontë on her second visit to the Great Exhbition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace

Cover: Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851