Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1898
End Date: 1898
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 69th annual exhibition. A total of 462 works were exhibited, of which 12 objects were sculpture-related.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1898, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 2,439;
Evening: 5,062;
Sunday: 2,002;
Season Ticket Holders: 113;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 9,503.
Display Arrangement: The exhibits were displayed in Galleries I, II and III. Sculptural objects seem to have been displayed separately.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Angelic Succour
1898
Exhibition included Bust of the late Capt. Alex Henry
1898
Exhibition included The late Sir Charles Halle
1898
Exhibition included Sketch Model for the bronze Statue, 'Edward Colston'
1898
Exhibition included The late Very Rev. Father Columbus Maher
1898
Exhibition included The finding of Eurydice
1898
Exhibition included Lioness Drinking
1898
Exhibition included Genius of Celtic Art
1898
Exhibition included Earl Egerton of Tatton
1898
Exhibition included A Saint of Ancient Ireland
1898
Exhibition included An Old Warrior
1898
Exhibition included Medallion
Offered for sale A Saint of Ancient Ireland
1898
£25
Offered for sale Genius of Celtic Art
1898
£27
Offered for sale The finding of Eurydice
1898
£350
In Marble
Offered for sale An Old Warrior
1898
£10
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1898
Participants
Exhibitors included John Cassidy
'Sketch Model for the bronze Statue, 'Edward Colston''
Exhibitors included Herbert Graham Barnes
'The late Very Rev. Father Columbus Maher'
Exhibitors included Oliver Sheppard
'Genius of Celtic Art'
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Mervyn Lawrence
'An Old Warrior'
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Macallan Swan
'Lioness Drinking'
Exhibitors included John Hughes
'The finding of Eurydice'
Exhibitors included L.T. Coffey
'Medallion '
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1898', 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_1204297093, accessed 29 May 2023]
