Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1897
End Date: 1897
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 68th annual exhibition. A total of 514 works were exhibited, of which 8 objects were sculpture-related.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1897, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 2,082;
Evening: 6,251;
Sunday: 1,406;
Season Ticket Holders: 94;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 9,737.
Display Arrangement: The exhibits were displayed in Galleries I, II and III. Sculptural objects seem to have been displayed separately.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Playmates
1897
Exhibition included The Training of Cuculain
1897
Exhibition included Gretel
1897
Exhibition included An Athenian Beggar
1897
Exhibition included Rosamond, Daughter of Stanley Lane-Poole, Esq.
1897
Exhibition included My Little Daughter
Exhibition included The late Archbishop of Canterbury
1897
Exhibition included Ouvre d'Amour
1897
Offered for sale An Athenian Beggar
1897
£10 10s.
Model for sale at £10 10s. 0d. Marble version offered at £85 0s. 0d.
Offered for sale The Training of Cuculain
1897
£35
Offered for sale Gretel
1897
£10 10s.
Available in marble or bronze for £80 0s. 0d.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1897
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
'Playmates'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
'The late Archbishop of Canterbury'
Exhibitors included Thomas Manly Deane
'My Little Daughter'
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Oliver Sheppard
'The Training of Cuculain'
Exhibitors included Herbert Graham Barnes
'Ouvre d'Amour'
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1897', 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_1204296904, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
