Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1888
End Date: 1888
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 59th annual exhibition. A total of 500 works were exhibited, of which 12 were sculpture-related.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1888, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 4,164;
Evening: 16,967;
Sunday: 2,330;
Season Ticket Holders: 354;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 23,461.
Display Arrangement: Exhibits displayed throughout the Large Room, the Ante Room and the Inner Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The late V. Rev. Canon Roche, PP
1888
Exhibition included Sursum Corda
1888
Exhibition included Innocence
1888
Exhibition included Zenobia
1888
Exhibition included Statuette - The Right Hon. William Edward Gladstone, MP
1888
Exhibition included Bust in Terracotta - Charlie Pearsall
1888
Exhibition included Aurora - Decorative Panel
1888
Exhibition included Portrait Bust - Philip C. Smyly, MD
1888
Exhibition included Bust - James Fitzgerald
1888
Exhibition included Favourite Fox Terriers (Portraits)
1888
Exhibition included His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
1888
Exhibition included Bust - Very Rev. Father Ring, OMI
1888
Exhibition included Portrait Head
1888
Offered for sale Statuette - The Right Hon. William Edward Gladstone, MP
1888
£25
Offered for sale Aurora - Decorative Panel
1888
£25
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1888
Participants
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
'Bust - James Fitzgerald'
Exhibitors included Mary Chadwick
'Favourite Fox Terriers (Portraits)'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
'His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury'
Exhibitors included Oliver Sheppard
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James Farrell
'Statuette - The Right Hon. William Edward Gladstone, MP'
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Farrell
'Zenobia'
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 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=msib3_1204288731, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
