Royal Society of Arts Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... Society of Arts ( RSA ) The RSA grew from the London‐based Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Its particular importance for local historians lies in its offer, made in 1762 , of prizes for county surveys leading to the publication of maps on the scale of 1 inch to 1 mile. See D. G. C. Allan , ‘ The Archives of the Royal Society of Arts, 1754–1847 ’, Archives , 4 (1959–60). The RSA also played a useful role in setting syllabuses and examinations for schools of art and science. http://www.rsa.org.uk ...
Royal Society of Arts Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... Society of Arts Founded in 1754 by William Shipley , a drawing‐master from Northampton, supported by Viscount Folkestone and Lord Romney. Its objective was to ‘encourage Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’ and the method was to raise funds by subscription in order to award prizes for useful talents and inventions. The early members included Johnson , Goldsmith , Hogarth , Gibbon , Pitt , Chippendale and Banks . In 1774 it moved into the premises in the Adelphi, built by the Adam brothers, which it has occupied ever...
Royal Society of Arts Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... Society of Arts . Founded in 1754 by William Shipley , a drawing-master from Northampton, supported by Viscount Folkestone and Lord Romney . Its objective was to ‘encourage Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’ and the method was to raise funds by subscription in order to award prizes for useful talents and inventions. The early members included Johnson , Goldsmith , Hogarth , Gibbon , Pitt , Chippendale , and Banks . In 1774 it moved into the premises in the Adelphi, built by the Adam brothers, which it has occupied ever since. The society was...
Royal Northern Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...Royal Northern Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts , established in 1800 to foster the Fine Arts in the northern provinces of England, mainly by holding annual exhibitions in which artists from London exhibited alongside local artists. The young Brontës would have been aware of the importance of this cultural event through their first art teacher, John Bradley , who regularly exhibited during the 1820s. They may have first encountered such names as Richard Westall , William Turner , William Mulready , and Sir Thomas Lawrence in the exhibition...
Royal Society of Arts
Royal Northern Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts
Viewing Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...oil paintings. The Society opened a gallery in Lower Brook Street that was designed to give the work of its members due recognition. A related society, the Associated Artists in Water-Colours, was formed in 1808 , and exhibited at the same location. The Royal Academy enjoyed a monopoly on annual institutional exhibitions until the formation of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in 1805 . The British Institution was organized to encourage and disseminate the work of contemporary British artists and (that most quotidian of objectives) to...
Painting Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...examples of this phenomenon are James *Barry and William *Blake . In 1777 , Barry, an Irish-born painter who had regularly exhibited at the Academy, won a commission to paint a narrative of The Progress of Human Culture on the walls of the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in the Strand. He planned to turn this huge series, which he had agreed to execute for free, into a commercial loss-leader, which would be financially redeemed after its completion by a one-man exhibition of the finished paintings, and by the sale of engravings after them. The...
Design Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...years earlier. But whereas the Society's aim to encourage industrial art through prize competitions had foundered through lack of support, the Select Committee enjoyed the active participation of both members and witnesses with commercial or industrial interests. At the same time, its forty-nine members included ‘men of taste’ sympathetic to the views of the Royal Academy as to the primacy of the fine arts. And conspicuous among the witnesses called to give evidence were those who most rigidly adhered to conservative academic values. They maintained that...
Architecture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...annually sent its top student to Rome for five years.) From 1809 onwards there were regularly published criticisms of the Royal Academy's failings and numerous proposals for reform. For example, the young Thomas Leverton Donaldson ( 1795–1885 ), future President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, founded the Architectural Students' Society in 1817 and petitioned for extended library hours and a School of Architecture. Soane did permit Academy students to study from his own private collections, and on his death bequeathed them and his house to...
43b The History of the Book in Southeast Asia (2): The Mainland Reference library
Jana Igunma
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...was established at Rangoon under the supervision of Adoniram Judson. The press was made and the types cut at the *Serampore Mission of the Baptist Missionary Society, where Burmese texts had been printed since 1810 . After the British acquisition of Arakan and Tenasserim, missionary work increased and more presses were established in Tavoy ( 1837 ) and Moulmein ( 1843 ). These operations pioneered the translation and printing of the Bible in the Karen and Mon languages. King Mindon established the first Royal Printing Press in Mandalay in 1864 . By 1870 ,...
27 The History of the Book in the Iberian Peninsula Reference library
María Luisa López-Vidriero
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...). The engravers from the Academy of Fine Arts worked for these printers on editions that are justly famous today, such as a Sallust ( Conjuración de Catalina y Guerra de Yugurta , translated by the Infante Don Gabriel Antonio, son of Charles III , 1772 ), and the Quixote of the Academy (edited by the *Real Academia Española , 1780 ), both printed by Ibarra. Bodoni was appointed royal printer, in part because the dukedom of Parma was linked to the Spanish royal family. Typography and the allied book arts improved considerably, to some extent...
Empire Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...Board of Agriculture or the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce—institutions which were reflected in colonial miniature in societies such as the Jamaican Society for the Cultivation of Agriculture and other Arts and Sciences, or the Society of Arts of Barbados. Though such colonial replicas were often short-lived, they testified to the dissemination of cultural values which helped to bind the metropolitan power with the colonial élites of the scattered empire, just as the goals of improvement had done much after the *Act of Union ...
Natural Philosophy (Science) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...not capable of being made a science’. Here Locke distinguished the ancient concept of scientia —a system of axiomatic knowledge—from the kind of natural knowledge produced by members of the Royal Society of London, such as the chemist Robert Boyle ( 1627–91 ). This so-called ‘new philosophy’ could not be considered as scientia , precisely because it depended on observation and experiment. However, with the success of Newton's mathematical approach to phenomena in astronomy and mechanics, natural philosophy appeared to have achieved the status of rigorously...
Theatre Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...It functioned as a place of assembly in which the collective experience of a town or city could be registered. The acquisition of a royal patent for a playhouse was regarded as a considerable coup, marking a community's coming of age. As those petitioning for a theatre royal in Edinburgh claimed in 1768 : ‘The state of arts and literature in any kingdom, and the taste of the people, are best known by the amusements they follow: those of the theatre are the most rational in which the human mind can delight.’ The construction of a playhouse was often...
33 The History of the Book in Poland Reference library
Janet Zmroczek
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...aesthetics. His work with members of the Polish Applied Arts society, Józef Mehoffer and Zenon Przesmycki (founder of the Warsaw journal Chimera ), laid the foundation for the modern Polish book arts. In the Prussian partition, particularly strong pressures to Germanize left no infrastructure for higher education or Polish learned societies until the later 19 th century, when the Society for Public Education ( 1872–9 ) and the Poznań Society of the Friends of the Sciences ( 1857 – ) were formed. Poznań was the regional centre for bookselling, printing,...
Antiquarianism (Popular) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britain ( 1607 ), John Stow 's Survey of London ( 1598 ), and above all the rich æuvre of John Aubrey ( 1626–97 ). Antiquarianism generally is a form of knowledge prompted and sustained by the early-seventeenth-century Baconian intellectual revolution. Francis Bacon ( 1561–1626 ) not only established but also popularized the notion that knowledge was to be actively sought for, in nature and in society, present and past. By the end of the seventeenth century the empirical scientists gathered in the Royal Society were...
39 The History of the Book in the Indian Subcontinent Reference library
Abhijit Gupta
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...School-Book Society ,] The Fifteenth Report of the Proceedings of the Calcutta School Book Society (1852) R. B. Chatterjee , ‘A Short Account of the Company’s Trade with the Subcontinent’, in Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition, 1843–1970 , ed. E. James (2001) — Empires of the Mind: A History of Oxford University Press in India Under the Raj (2006) R. B. Darnton , ‘ Literary Surveillance in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal Imperialism ’, BH 4 (2001), 133–76 S. K. Das , Sahibs and Munshis: An Account of the College of Fort William ...
Class Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...James Mill warned that the spread of radical economic ideas ‘would be the subversion of civilised society, worse than the overwhelming deluge of Huns and Tartars’. Popular publisher Charles Knight ( 1791–1873 ) saw that ‘the triumphant song of “Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital”’ could only take place ‘amid the shriek of the jackal and the howl of the wolf’. Language, especially rhetoric or the language of persuasion, needs to be considered as social communication and situated within the historical context of the social relations where it played...
