CHENEVEAU, A. - Exposition Universelle de 1878. . .

Colour lithographed plate showing the Paris World Exhibition grounds of 1878, showing the Champ-de-Mars and Trocadero, in the heart of the capital.
Lithographed by A.Cheneveau, and printed by Becquet. To the left the large rectangle main building that contained perpendicular galleries checkerboard shaped to classify products by nature in a side and by nation in the other side. Foreign sections are focused on rue des Nations where each frontage from Alhambra to chalet Suisse present national architecture.
On the other side of the Seine River, Davioud and Bourdais were in charge of building a vast palace dedicated to congresses and shows. This palace blends hispano-moorish and roman-byzantine influences.

In 1878 The United States are much more represented than in the past, diffusing their model of democracy, supposed to promote the triumph of inventive and autodidact man. There is a stronger influence of Japan and China explained by the growing interest for Oriental Art, particularly Japanese one. Exhibition had 16 million visitors. It has been considered as a success.