Item 20 - Christmas card of William Shipley, the Society's founder, selling winter fuel at summer prices to the poor in Northampton so as to defeat profiteers (c. 1751) by Anna Zinkeisen

Identity area

Reference code

RSA/PR/GE/109/11/20

Title

Christmas card of William Shipley, the Society's founder, selling winter fuel at summer prices to the poor in Northampton so as to defeat profiteers (c. 1751) by Anna Zinkeisen

Date(s)

  • 1967 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

Context area

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

William Shipley is shown selling winter fuel to the poor at summer prices in a street called the Drapery, in the centre of the town, where he had lodgings and a studio for his professional work as an artist and drawing master from 1747 until 1753. He is being assisted in his calculations by some of the richer Northampton residents who had, after some years' canvass, agreed to subscribe to his fund. The success of his scheme to defeat the Northampton fuel profiteers made Shipley persevere with his plan to raise a national fund for rewarding useful inventions and artistic excellence and in 1753 he came to London with the express purpose of founding a Society of Arts. 28,200 copies sold.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open Until

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Allied materials area

      Existence and location of originals

      C/28/5

      Existence and location of copies

      Related units of description

      35mm slide PR/GE/109/11/70

      Related descriptions

      Notes area

      Note

      Edition:
      Publisher:, ,

      Note

      Note

      Conservation priority

      Note

      Related record

      Note

      Creator Victoria 17/12/1998

      Alternative identifier(s)

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Description control area

      Description identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      Status

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Accession area