Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent Street, Waterloo Place … A Grand Moving Diorama, Route of the Overland Mail to India, on a scale of unequalled magnitude,

accompanied by a descriptive detail of every object worthy of Notice on that highly interesting Journey ; being the first illustrated Lecture of the Series to be given by a Society having among its Members some of the first Literary and Artistic Talent … … London : printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, [1850]. Handbill, 220 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; early pencilled date of 2 April 1850 to bottom margin; a fine example.

This diorama, which indulged London audiences eager to learn more about the exotic places along Thomas Waghorn’s Overland Route to India, was collaboratively designed by artists William Telbin (1815-1873), Thomas Grieve (1799-1882), David Roberts (1796-1864), and John Frederick Herring (1795-1865).

Altick, The Shows of London, pp. 207-9