Life and Environment 31 In the year 1851 The Great Exhibition was held, and we find in the Official Catalogue the following entry: No. 115. Baxter, G., u and 12, Northampton Square. Inventor, Manufacturer and Patentee Specimen of Oil Colour Printing; Historical, Portraits, Architectural, and Landscapes. The Official Catalogue containing the reports of the Juries says of Baxter's productions: "Nothing can be more beautiful and more perfect in execution than these charming plates printed in colours". . and under the heading of G. Baxter, London, in the section relating to Fine Arts we find : " The view of the Exterior of the Great Exhibition Buildings and a female Portrait show very great skill in a process which so seldom yields a successful result Hon. Mention." With the advent of this " Great Exhibition " of the Industries of all Nations, and the consequent impetus given to Baxter's work, he had again to enlarge his premises, this being done by taking in the adjoining house, No. 12, Northampton Square; and at the same time he installed, according to Mr. Robert Harrild's ledgers, another " Stanhope Press.'* In 1852 Baxter received a medal from the Emperor of Austria, which was chronicled in the "Art Journal" of August, 1852, by the following: "Mr. Baxter well deserved the honour conferred upon him by the Emperor of Austria, who has forwarded to him the Gold Medal for ' Literary and Artistic Merit, as a testimony to the originality, utility and beauty of his invention of the Art of Printing in oil colours,, and as a mark of his Imperial approval of the ' Gems of the Great Exhibition.'" He also received the New York Exhibition medal, 1853; Paris Exhibition medal, 1855; and the King of Sweden's medal, 1857.