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Highly commended under section 6, Advertising

Won prize of 5 guineas under section 4, Book Production

Highly commended under section 5, Pottery and Glass

Highly commended under section 5, Pottery and Glass

Won travelling scholarship of £75 under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company Limited

Won travelling scholarship of £75 under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company Limited

Won prize of £15 under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by the Cretonne Department of the Calico Printers Association

Won prize of £12 under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by Messrs Brinton Limited

Won prize of £15 under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by Messrs Lister and Company Limited

Won 15 guineas, under section 2, Textiles, prize offered by Messrs W Foxton Ltd

Won prize of £25, under section 5, Advertising and Commercial Art, prize offered by Messrs J C Eno Ltd

Winner of the Sir Frank Warner Memorial Medal for her furnishing textile designs and a scholarship for her dress fabric designs

Winner of the Sir Frank Warner Memorial Medal for her furnishing textile designs and a scholarship for her dress fabric designs

Commissioned to mark HM The Queen's 50 year association with the RSA

On 18th December 1850, Charles Dickens, Vice President, in the Chair, Mr W Bridges Adams read his paper on Railway Influence and Extension. The Adelphi had been an area of mystery for Charles Dickens in his unhappy childhood and David Copperfield, in the same predicament, would wander about the district, finding excitement in the strange inhabitants of the riverside. In the foreground of the painting Dickens is surrounded by his characters and in the background he can be seen arriving at the Society. 31,000 copies sold.

In 1758 the Society made the first of its many awards intended to promote reafforestation in Great Britain. A gold medal was awarded to Henry, fifth Duke of Beaufort, to mark the planting of acorns 'for the raising of Oak Timber' upon 23 acres of his estate at Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire. The artist, Anna Zinkeisen has depicted the Duke (in a red coat) listening as his steward, Robert Croucher, reads an advertisement of the conditions upon which the Society's offer of the medal was made. The mounted figure on the left is the Duke's sister, Lady Anne Somerset. Badminton House, the Duke's seat, can be seen in the distance. 24,000 copies sold.

Illustration taken from 'Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus...of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies and North and South America' by W J Titford MD Corresponding member of the Society of Arts, 1812. The Society encouraged the development of the Botanic Garden at St Vincent, where Captain William Bligh left some tropical fruits, including breadfruit for which he was awarded the Society gold medal in 1794. Used for the 1998 Christmas card.