Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
Start Date: September 1888 (Circa)
End Date: 1 December 1888
Type: Exhibition
Description: Diverse exhibits, ranging from embroidery to stained glass, carving and metal work. Credit given to various individuals involved in the production of a piece.
Policy: Male and female exhibitors, copyright reserved, no sketching without written permission. Provided prices on request and put purchasers into contact with artists.
Display Arrangement: Mixed media displays; 517 exhibits in total.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Arts and Crafts
Exhibition included Peacock and Crane
Exhibition included Monkey and Dolphin
Exhibition included Jacob's Ladder
Exhibition included Roundel in gesso for a screen in a church at Newcastle
Exhibition included Haymaker
Exhibition included The North Wind, the Sun and the Traveller
Exhibition included A True Workman and Grinder
Exhibition included Design for wood carving: marine subject
Exhibition included The Village Smith: 'Under a spreading chesnut tree'
Exhibition included The Village Smith: 'He goes on Sunday to the church'
Exhibition included The Village Smith: 'The children coming home from school'
Exhibition included Haymaker and Man with scythe
Exhibition included Artemis
Exhibition included Tethys
Exhibition included Nymph and Cupid
Exhibition included 'The ploughman plods his weary way'
Exhibition included St George and Dragon
Exhibition included Models in gesso duro for Bell Plate, Door handles and Key Escutcheons
Exhibition included Cabinet panels
Exhibition included Frieze and panels for fireplace
Shown alongside a photograph of the complete fireplace (under same exhibition no.).
Exhibition included Models in gesso duro for finger plates
Exhibition included Artillery horses
Exhibition included Judith
Exhibition included Plaster casts: for frieze decoration
Exhibition included Experiment in tinting sculpture: a crucifix
Exhibition included Experiment in tinting sculpture
Exhibition included Frieze decoration in plaster
Exhibition included Four plaster casts: decorative
Exhibition included Frieze in plaster for Cutler's Hall
Exhibition included Model in plaster, for knocker
Exhibition included Bas-relief in plaster
Exhibition included Plaster models of panels for stove
Exhibition included Head of Medusa
Exhibition included Andromeda
Exhibition included Twighlight
Exhibition included Bust of a lady
Exhibition included Kittens
Exhibition included Panels in gesso duro
Exhibition included The Centurian
Exhibition included Mrs Mark Rogers
Exhibition included Model in plaster for head in bronze
Exhibition included Hero
Exhibition included In Arcady
Exhibition included Terra cotta bust
Exhibition included Drawing of pulpit in St. Martin's Church, Brighton, with first model of one of the sides
Exhibition included Font cover: in oak: style of fifteenth century (late)
Exhibition included Dish
Exhibition included Sconce: in brass repoussé
Exhibition included Miner at work
Exhibition included Metal panel
Exhibition included Giotto
Exhibition included Silver loving-cup: partly cast
Exhibition included Study for gargoyle: cast in plaster, for stone or terracotta
Exhibition included Frieze in plaster
Exhibition included Model in clay (for terra cotta) of vase: unfinished
Exhibition included Portion of a carved frieze
Exhibition included Oak carving: pilaster in the style of the Italian Renaissance
Exhibition included Oak carving: minature replicas of 'Atlas'
Exhibition included Carved oak panel
Participants
Exhibitors included Walter Crane
'St George and Dragon'
Exhibitors included William Hamo Thornycroft
''The ploughman plods his weary way''
Exhibitors included Henry George Alexander Holiday
'Nymph and Cupid'
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
'Haymaker and Man with scythe'
Exhibitors included (George) Heywood Maunoir Sumner
'Judith'
Exhibitors included Osmund Weeks
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
'Artillery horses'
Exhibitors included Christopher Whitworth Whall
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Joseph Phillips
'Portion of a carved frieze'
Exhibitors included William Aumonier Senior
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Wilson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Joseph Witcombe
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charlotte Wylie
'Twighlight'
Exhibitors included Sidney A. Austin
'Metal panel'
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
'Giotto'
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Arthur John Smith
'Frieze in plaster'
Exhibitors included Arthur James Osmond
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Mark Rogers Junior
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Ada Freeman Gell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (Mary) Evelyn Pickering de Morgan
'Head of Medusa'
Exhibitors included John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
'Andromeda'
Exhibitors included Albert W. Keidel
Multiple works
Selection committee members included Henry Hugh Armstead
Citing this record
'Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1206038968, accessed 04 Oct 2023]