Plaster Work (Art Workers Guild), 1887
Start Date: 4 November 1887
End Date: 18 November 1887
Type: Lecture, demonstration and exhibition
Description: Lecture and demonstration at ordinary meeting of the Art Worker's Guild. Subject introduced by Webb, who gave a paper, then practical demonstration of methods of plaster decoration by Witcombe and Priestly. Followed by a small exhibition on the off-meeting of the 18 November 1887 (AWG annual report, 1887, p. 5).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Members limited to 150. Candidates for election must be personally known to proposer and seconder, and be bona-fide workers in some art or craft' (Year's Art, 1890, p. 90).
Participants
Participant Henry Priestly
November 1887
Participant Joseph Witcombe
November 1887
Speaker Stephen Webb
November 1887
Citing this record
'Plaster Work (Art Workers Guild), 1887', 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_1213013259, accessed 03 Oct 2023]
