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A temporary 'Crystal Palace' was built in Hyde Park to house the displays and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert presided over the grand opening ceremony. The Great Exhibition, the first ever international exhibition of its kind, was a magnificent display of manufactured products – from steam engines to myriad exotic goods from Britain and its empire and beyond. Jones finally introduced his colour theories to the wider public when he was asked to decorate the interior of the 1851 Great Exhibition building, a vast structure of iron and glass. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Architectural drawings of columns from the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Amun, Owen Jones, about 1853, London. (Left to right) Architectural drawings of columns from the Temple of Ramses the Great and the Temple of Sedingar, Owen Jones, about 1853, London. (Left to right) Tombs near Cairo, watercolours by Owen Jones, 1832 – 33, Egypt. He embarked on his Grand Tour – the coming-of-age trip for (mainly) young, upper-class men – at the age of 23, visiting Italy, Greece, Egypt and Turkey before arriving in Granada, in Spain to carry out studies of the Alhambra Palace that were to cement his reputation. The prospect of studying these examples of architectural polychromy (architecture decorated in a variety of colours) would have been irresistible to a young, ambitious architect such as Jones. He was aware however that recent discoveries suggested ancient Greek buildings were in fact originally coloured. Owen Jones grew up in a world dominated by the austere 'whiteness' of Neoclassical architecture.

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