Bound volumes containing reprints from the Journal of Cantor Lectures \n\nThe Cantor Lectures were named after Dr. Edward Theodore Cantor who was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. Upon his death in 1860 he bequeathed the sum of £5,042 to the Society in order to promote our objectives (encouraging arts, manufacture and commerce). He does not seem to have been a Member of the Society and in making this bequest he neglected to make any provision for his mother who was still alive and had depended on him greatly. The Society decided to give her an annual allowance of £25 for the rest of her life. She died in 1867. \n\nSome debate was taken as how best to use the money as Cantor himself had made no specific request. It was decided to begin a course of lectures on industrial technology which ran annually and began in 1864. The last series of Cantor Lectures took place in 1990.\n
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Used to illustrate lecture text entitled' Captain Cook's Spirit of Adventure' by Lord Crathorne, 4/1/1989
Background to the RSA's history
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Awarded the sum of twenty guineas by the Society for his set of working drawings in 1824
Roxburgh was elected an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Society in 1797 and awarded the Society's Gold Medal in 1805 for his communications on East India products
Landseer awarded the lesser silver palette for this drawing, done when he was 10 years old
Tim Clark was a pupil of the Government School of Design. Illustration from M Digby Wyatt, 'The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. A series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation at the Great Exhibition, 1851' held in the Society's early library
Limited edition of 200 copies
Amber Hiscott worked with Noel Architects on the conversion of the Old Library in Cardiff into a major centre for the visual arts. The £6.2m scheme includes a number of facilities including two galleries for twentieth century art and a children's discovery centre. Artist and architect worked together to identify opportunities for the involvement of other artists and craftspeople during the later stages of the project. The project was completed in 1997. Client: Cardiff Old Library Trust. Award value £6,500.
Background to the RSA's history
Won The British Musuem Attachment Award worth £1460 under the the 'Museuem Shop for Children' brief in the 'Interior Design' sector. Worked with the British Museum.
The Fountain Carpet' in patent knot stitch fabric, 12 x 9ft, designed by Maxwell Armfield for Tomkinsons Ltd, Kidderminster