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RSA/PR/GE/109/11/45
Title
Christmas card entitled 'A Shilling Colour-Box' by Quentin Blake, RDI
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- 1988 (Creation)
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This drawing was specially designed from the artist and illustrator Quentin Blake. It recalls one of the most popular of the Society's many initiatives, the shilling colour-box. In 1851 the Society offered a medal for such a box and the award presented by Prince Albert in the following year to a Mr J Rogers, recognized a watercolour box made at the latter's factory which was a great advance on anything then available at the price. Henry Cole, who first suggested this prize offer, reported in 1870 that sales of the boxes had reached 11 million. 32,097 copies sold
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C/28/5
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Publisher:, ,
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One of two cards designed in 1988
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Creator Victoria 22/12/1998