Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1874

End Date: 1874

Type: Annual exhibition

Description: 45th annual exhibition. A total of 343 works exhibited in 1874. Works listed under sculpture (16) appeared on the final page of the listings and included a design for a colossal statue, busts in marble and plaster, medallions, medals and seals.

Policy: 'Before the year 1805, Exhibitions in annual succession were unknown in Ireland. The Professors of the Fine Arts had no permanent bond to unite them, nor place for the Exhibition of their works'. This changed in 1824, when George IV granted a royal charter to the Royal Hibernian Academy and one of its members, Francis Johnston, Esq., provided the Professors with an Academy House and suitable Galleries for exhibition.

A gallery for the reception of Antique Statues and Modern Works of Sculpture was supplied in 1830, by the erection of a new building on land adjoining the existing academy, funded by Mrs Johnston, widow of the late President, Francis Johnston above (p. 3).

Display Arrangement: The objects relating to sculpture seem to have been hung together, rather than dispersed among the paintings and drawings.

Citing this record

'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1874', 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=msib3_1203423375, accessed 22 Mar 2023]