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The Society holds an Annual Summer meeting for members and their guests, and an AGM in October.
2008 Diary Dates:
| 14 May 2008 |
Hands on Printing at Reading University - Dept of Typography We
will see how Baxter would have worked using printing presses from the era
and hopefully do some hands on printing ourselves including printing from
one of Baxter’s own plates. This event is fully booked. |
| 2 August 2008 | Summer Meeting to be held at Lewes Town Hall. A chance to see some of the Lewes collection which is being exhibited from 21 July to 2 August. there will be presentations, guided talks around the exhibition and much more click for details |
| 25 October 2008 | Meeting & Annual General Meeting to be held at Redbourn, Herts. - There will be presentations, a display and competition, as well as the all important opportunity to air your views. |
Juniata College
An exhibition of The Colour
Prints of George Baxter at Juniata College, Pennsylvania; 17 April to 6
Sept. 2008. Visit the
Juniata
College website for more details.
Lewes Town Hall
The Council's collection will be on display
21 July to 2 August 2008.
More details.
V & A Museum - A Show of Emotion: Victorian Sentiment in Prints & Drawings. Temporary display in rooms 88a and the Julie and Robert Breckman Prints & Drawings Gallery, Room 90, 7 December 2006 - 10 September 2007. Includes some Baxter prints. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/victorian_sentiment/index.html
The Victoria University Library in Toronto, Canada. On Line Exhibition. George Baxter (1804-1867): A Bicentenary Exhibition of Prints & Illustrations. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/baxterexhibit/index.htm
For further information please contact us at our Electronic mail address - New Baxter Society Enquiries
Past Meetings:-
If you have not been to one of the exhibitions yet, here is a sample of what you missed.
| October 2007 | AGM | Mr Martin Andrews, Seniour Lecturer in Printing History at Reading University, an insight into printed ephemera. Mic Relf ; 'Parts of a Baxter Print you might never have seen before - but might have liked to.' |
| July 2007 | Summer | The Great Exhibition 1851and Members Tables |
| October 2006 | AGM | Selection of material from Reading Museum's collection |
| July 2006 | Summer | Exhibition 'Members' Choice' |
| October 2005 | AGM | Presentation - Members present some items of interest |
| July 2005 | Summer | Exhibition 'Is it a Baxter?' |
| October 2004 | AGM | |
| July 2004 | Summer | Exhibition 'The George Baxter Bicentenary Celebration' |
| October 2003 | AGM | Talk 'The Baxter Family' |
| July 2003 | Summer | Exhibition - 'A Contrast in Styles' |
| October 2002 | AGM | Presentation 'Preview of The Le Blond CD ROM' |
| July 2002 | Summer | Exhibition 'George Baxter & his Licensees' |
| October 2001 | AGM | Presentation 'Preview of The Baxter CD ROM' |
| July 2001 | Summer | Exhibition 'The Best of Baxter' |
| October 2000 | AGM | |
| July 2000 | Summer | Exhibition 'Kronheim Prints' |
| October 1999 | AGM | |
| July 1999 | Summer | Exhibition 'The Le Blond prints' |
| October 1998 | AGM | Presentation 'The Starr Collection at Victoria University' |
| July 1998 | Summer | Exhibition 'Six Of The Best' |
| October 1997 | AGM | Presentation 'Cleaning & Restoration of Prints' |
| July 1997 | Summer | Exhibition 'The A E Owen Collection' |
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