Cameo and Intaglio Cutting (Art Workers Guild), 1888
End Date: 2 November 1888
Type: Exhibition and demonstration
Description: At ordinary meeting of the Art Worker's Guild. A. Hamilton Smith of the British Museum gave exposition of the art and showed examples by him and others.
8pm start time.
Policy: 'Founded in 1883, with the object of bringing into closer union the workers in various arts and crafts - architects, painters, designers of all kinds, sculptors and wood carvers, metal workers, goldsmiths, and many others - chiefly by evening meetings and discussions on different lines and methods in art. 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
Participants included Arthur Hamilton Smith
Gave practical demonstration.
Speaker Arthur Hamilton Smith
Citing this record
'Cameo and Intaglio Cutting (Art Workers Guild), 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_1213024974, accessed 03 Dec 2021]
