In 1851, Wyatt produced the book The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, an imposing imperial folio in two volumes which illustrates a selection of items from the
Great Exhibition of 1851.[4] The book, which has won widespread acclaim for the quality of its plates, appeared in two parts, with the first dated 1 October 1851, through to the extra-illustrated title pages dated 15 March 1853. There are 160
chromolithographed plates produced by a team of artists and lithographers including
Francis Bedford, J. A. Vinter and
Henry Rafter.
A paper on the construction of the exhibition building read before the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1866 was awarded the
Telford medal.
His work included, c. 1869, a substantial private residence, known as 'Newells', not far from
Leonardslee at
Lower Beeding, near Horsham in Sussex, as mentioned in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6. Newells had been occupied as a preparatory school for boys from 1946 until destroyed by fire in 1968. Photographic images of the exterior and interior of the house, when occupied by the prep. school, can be seen at an external link given in the article '
Newells Preparatory School'. His other commissions in Sussex included
Possingworth Manor and Oldlands near Herron's Ghyll.[5]
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^Nairn & Pevsner, Ian & Nikolaus (1977). The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. pp. 533, 585.
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^Clothier, Alan: Robert Stephenson Abroad Egypt 1847–1859: Rocket Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne 2006 page 34.
^A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982),
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