In 1851, Wyatt produced the bookThe Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, an imposing imperial folio in two volumes which illustrates a selection of items from theGreat 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 160chromolithographed plates produced by a team of artists and lithographers includingFrancis Bedford, J. A. Vinter andHenry Rafter.
A paper on the construction of the exhibition building read before the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1866 was awarded theTelford medal.
His work included, c. 1869, a substantial private residence, known as 'Newells', not far fromLeonardslee atLower Beeding, near Horsham in Sussex, as mentioned inA 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 includedPossingworth Manor and Oldlands near Herron's Ghyll.[5]
^Leathlean, Howard. The Archaeology of the Art Director? Some Examples of Art Direction in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Publishing. Journal of Design History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1993), pp. 229–245. Oxford University Press on behalf of Design History Society.
^Nairn & Pevsner, Ian & Nikolaus (1977).The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. pp. 533, 585.ISBN0140710280.
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