Photograph of part of the exhibition building during construction, from the ground, showing part of one of the cast-iron halls and a brick building with neo-renaissance windows, five people including two ladies (in middle distance), on the ground. The International Exhibition of 1862 was intended as a sequel to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park; it was designed by Captain Francis Fowke (1823-65) and constructed on land in South Kensington that is now the Natural History Museum.