Designed by V Skellern, made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
Image acquired but not used to illustrate lecture text for 'Bridging the Gap' by Prof. Christopher Frayling and James Dyson, held at the RSA 1/3/2000
Includes a letter of introduction from Charles Taylor to James Barry for Charles Warren.
These cottages were bequeathed to the Society in 1931. There are 9 photographs showing external views, one showing an internal view and one negative.
Clock designed by R. McGrath and black dessert plate designed by Sigmund Pollitzer, both manufactured by Pilkington Bros Ltd
Clock designed by R. McGrath and black dessert plate designed by Sigmund Pollitzer, both manufactured by Pilkington Bros Ltd
Includes tickets and invitation cards to annual dinners and prize-giving ceremonies. Certificates of Fellowship; Bicentenary of the RSA 1954 printed material Council Commemoration Dinner Programme 22 March 1954, held at The Savoy Hotel, London including the guest list, menu and evening entertainment.
The Duke of Connaught Prize was administered by the RSA Examinations Department in conjunction with papers set in the 1943 examinations. Prizes were awarded for 'encouragement of knowledge about the British Empire and Anglo-American relations.\nThe 1951 Essay Competition was set up to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition and the 1954 Bicentenary Essay Competition marked the bicentenary of the Society. Competitors were asked to write about life in 'AD2000'
In the immediate post war period the Society organised a number of small exhibitions at the House. The principal exhibition was the 'Exhibition of Exhibitions', the Society's contribution to the commemoration of the 1851 Great Exhibition. Opened on 1st May 1951 by HRH The Princess Elizabeth, President of the Society. it was associated with the Festival of Britain. \nIncludes files and papers on arrangements for the exhibitions, publicity material and catalogues as well as photographs of exhibits and of the opening ceremonies
Page 736 from Volume 2 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)