Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
Start Date: August 1889
End Date: 7 December 1889
Type: Exhibition
Description: Diverse exhibits, ranging from embroidery to stained glass, carving and metal work. Credit given to various indivduals 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; 868 exhibits in total.
Exhibits
Awarded prize by Frieze in carved yellow pine: Italian Renaissance style
Williamson won £5 and a medal for this work.
Exhibition included Plaster frieze
Exhibition included Panel in plaster for terra cotta: 'Music and the Drama'
Exhibition included Panel in plaster for terra cotta: 'Art and Science'
Exhibition included Plaster panel for the New Public Library, Hertford
Exhibition included Il Penseroso
Exhibition included Thought Reading
Exhibition included Calligrapher and Miniaturist
Exhibition included An interlude
Exhibition included The Dance
Exhibition included Tête à tête
Exhibition included The Printing Press
Exhibition included L'Allegro
Exhibition included A study for 'The Sluggard'
Exhibition included Jubilee medallion
Exhibition included Modelled design, in plaster, for rosewater dish and bottle
Exhibition included Five bronze medals in glass case
Exhibition included Queen's Jubliee
Exhibition included Medals: obv. 'Augustus Harris, Esq.', rev. 'Tragedy, Comedy', etc.
Exhibition included Vase in hand modelled terra cotta
Exhibition included Enemies
Exhibition included Handwerk steht auf goldene Füsze
Exhibition included Model in wax for door-knocker
Exhibition included A Deer-hound
Exhibition included The Craft of the Guild
Exhibition included Tabernacle door in copper: silvered and parcel gilt
Exhibition included Piano back in carved walnut: gilt ground
Exhibition included Model in plaster for an electric light
Exhibition included Two fairies and mouse
Exhibition included A Spanish Bull Fight
Exhibition included A Fairy Siesta
Exhibition included Hebe
Exhibition included Circe
Exhibition included Diana and her nymphs
Exhibition included Figure in vine-swing
Exhibition included Two Fairies
Exhibition included The Chariot of the Sun
Exhibition included Luca della Robbias
Exhibition included Small lily panel
Exhibition included Modelled design for necklace pendant
Exhibition included Tam O' Shanter: design in wax for tailboard of sloop: 'The Grey Mare'
Exhibition included Model in plaster for ceiling or wall
Exhibition included The presentation of our Lady in the Temple
Exhibition included The Rivals
Exhibition included Panel in terra cotta
Exhibition included Carved bass-wood freize for door or hall mantel
Exhibition included The Apothecary
Exhibition included Pencil sketch for statuettes
Exhibition included Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
Exhibition included Modelled design in wax for panel
Exhibition included Football
Exhibition included Medallion for wall: portrait of a lady in modelled plaster
Exhibition included Panel in plaster for terra cotta
Exhibition included Sketches in plaster for terra cotta statue on St Vincent Street Buildings, Glasgow
Exhibition included Sketch models for an entablature on New County Buildings, Paisley
Exhibition included Part of a gesso memorial tablet erected in Kermerton Church, Gloucestershire (replica)
Exhibition included Witchcraft
Exhibition included Black Art
Exhibition included Three low-relief plaster panels for mantelpiece decoration
Exhibition included Sketch for decorative statuette
Exhibition included Sketch models of frieze in terra cotta for H. Heath, illustrating the history and manufacture of hats, ancient and modern
Exhibition included Panel in plaster for metal
Exhibition included Panel in plaster for terra cotta
Exhibition included St George and the Dragon
Exhibition included Pencil drawing of terracotta statues on St Vincent Street Buildings, Glasgow
Exhibition included 'Where did you come from, baby dear?'
Exhibition included Design for panel in wax
Exhibition included Ruth and Naomi
Exhibition included Frieze in carved yellow pine: Italian Renaissance style
Exhibition included Sir David Lindesay
Exhibition included The Fountain
Exhibition included Italian frieze in patent fibrous plaster
Exhibition included A study of drapery in relief
Exhibition included Plaster frieze
Exhibition included Italian frieze in patent fibrous plaster
Exhibition included Dawn
Exhibition included Model for terra cotta panel
Exhibition included Frieze in plaster
Exhibition included Wood carving
Exhibition included Carved walnut panel for door
Exhibition included Walnut wood bellows
Exhibition included Carved oak panel
Exhibition included Bracket with figure
Exhibition included Two carved upright panels for fire-place in American walnut
Exhibition included Square carved frame: granite pattern
Exhibition included Carved frame in American walnut, enclosing three panels
Exhibition included Carved panel of dog-roses
Exhibition included Panel for cabinet, carved in walnut
Exhibition included Renaissance panel in walnut
Exhibition included Venus and Cupid
Exhibition included Renaissance panel carved in walnut
Exhibition included Children and goat
Exhibition included A portion of pilaster in oak
Exhibition included Walnut minature frame
Exhibition included Group of puppies carved in wood
Exhibition included Walnut panel: design copied
Exhibition included Sketch: door panel carved in oak
Exhibition included Case containing seven cameos
Exhibition included Case containing seven cameos
Exhibition included Two cameos
Exhibition included Cameos: head of Savonarola and two female heads
Exhibition included Helen of Troy
Exhibition included Six cameos: 'Vertumnus', 'Pomona', 'Bust of a Boy', 'Britannia', 'Juno', 'Spray of ivy'
Exhibition included Dancing girl
Exhibition included Three-fold screen in walnut
Exhibition included Chimney-piece in carved pine
Exhibition included Grandfather's Clock
Exhibition included Model in plaster and wood of chimney piece at Ashridge for Earl Brownlow
Exhibition included Sketch model in plaster of lions fighting
Exhibition included Vase in unfired terracotta
Exhibition included Dolphin
Exhibition included Door knocker
Exhibition included Design and model of wall fountain
Exhibition included Literature
Exhibition included Upper portion of pulpit in oak, with panels in bronze
Exhibition included Boy and Swan
Exhibition included The Pearl
Exhibition included Niche with terra-cotta group of Madonna and Child
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Organized by The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Participants
Awarded prize to William S. Williamson
For 'Frieze in carved yellow pine'.
Exhibitors included Arthur W. Simpson
'Carved panel of dog-roses'
Exhibitors included George Homfray
'Carved frame in American walnut, enclosing three panels'
Exhibitors included Maud Agnes Heath
Multiple works
Exhibitors included H. Cooper
'Panel for cabinet, carved in walnut'
Exhibitors included Herbert Randall
'Venus and Cupid'
Exhibitors included Joseph Phillips
'A portion of pilaster in oak'
Exhibitors included Maria Ellen Reeks
'Bracket with figure'
Exhibitors included Arthur James Osmond
'Carved oak panel'
Exhibitors included James Havenham
'A study of drapery in relief'
Exhibitors included Laurence Arthur Turner
'Plaster frieze'
Exhibitors included Charlotte Wylie
'Dawn'
Exhibitors included Alfred William Bowcher
'Model for terra cotta panel'
Exhibitors included Frederick Emil E. Schenck
'Frieze in plaster'
Exhibitors included Agnes L. Hine
'Wood carving'
Exhibitors included Margaret Oliphant Wilson
'Carved walnut panel for door'
Exhibitors included Henrietta E. Wahab
'Walnut wood bellows'
Exhibitors included Albert W. Keidel
'Group of puppies carved in wood'
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
'Sketch model in plaster of lions fighting'
Exhibitors included John Wilson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
'Boy and Swan'
Exhibitors included Beatrice A. M. Brown
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Alice Scholfield
'Case containing seven cameos'
Exhibitors included Mary Arnold
'Case containing seven cameos'
Exhibitors included Annie Howland
'Two cameos'
Exhibitors included W.S.W. Astbury
'Cameos: head of Savonarola and two female heads'
Exhibitors included Arnot
'Helen of Troy'
Exhibitors included Louisa Sibylla Heinrich
'Six cameos: 'Vertumnus', 'Pomona', 'Bust of a Boy', 'Britannia', 'Juno', 'Spray of ivy''
Exhibitors included Letitia Clarke
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (Giovanni) Carlo Manzoni
'Vase in hand modelled terra cotta'
Exhibitors included Edward Lowther Dunkley
'Enemies'
Exhibitors included Esther Mary Moore
'Handwerk steht auf goldene Füsze'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
'Model in wax for door-knocker'
Exhibitors included Arthur Wardle
'A Deer-hound'
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
'Model in plaster for an electric light'
Exhibitors included Alfred Gilbert
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Walter Crane
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Frederic Leighton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin
'Modelled design, in plaster, for rosewater dish and bottle'
Exhibitors included Mark Rogers Junior
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (George) Heywood Maunoir Sumner
'Part of a gesso memorial tablet erected in Kermerton Church, Gloucestershire (replica)'
Exhibitors included R.S Wheaton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William S. Williamson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889', 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_1210769780, accessed 10 Jun 2023]