Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1878
End Date: 1878
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 49th annual exhibition. A larger than usual number of exhibits: with 607 works displayed. A high representation amongst paintings and featured only eleven exhibits related to sculpture and numismatics.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1878, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 5,239;
Evening: 22,739;
Sunday: 313*;
Season Ticket Holders: 531;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 28,291.
In 1878 the Sunday opening was an experiment only. Sunday admissions did not occur again until 1884.
Display Arrangement: Due to the size of the exhibition, approximately half the exhibits were displayed between the Large Room and the Ante Room (333 works), and the remaining works (274) were all displayed together in the Sculpture Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Bust of Professor Max Muller
1878
Exhibition included The Transfiguration
1878
Exhibition included Statue of O'Connell
1878
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait of Mrs A. J. Adams
Exhibition included Statuette - A Lookout
1878
Exhibition included The Great Sea Serpent
1878
Exhibition included Medallion of Professor Malden
Exhibition included Medallion - Mrs M. Lawlor
Exhibition included The First Flight
1878
Exhibition included Bust - Rev. Father Lockhart
1878
Exhibition included Medals
Offered for sale The Transfiguration
1878
£120
Offered for sale The Great Sea Serpent
£3
offered for sale as a pair, with companion piece, another statuette, A Lookout
Offered for sale Statuette - A Lookout
£3
offered for sale as a pair, with companion piece, The Great Sea Serpent
Participants
Exhibitors included John Woodhouse
'Medals'
Exhibitors included Michael Lawlor
'Medallion - Mrs M. Lawlor'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James Cahill
'Statue of O'Connell '
Exhibitors included John Hogan
'The Transfiguration'
Exhibitors included John Valentine Hogan
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1878', 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_1203937212, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
