2-714-820 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Horticultural Garden and Exhibition Building', c1876. Garden maintained by the Royal Horticultural Society from 1861 to c1886 on what is now Exhibition road. Prince Albert was a dominant figure in bringing the Society to South Kensington, building designs by Captain Francis Fowke. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]