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).

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 29 Mar 2023]