The National Exhibition, Cork, 1852
End Date: 1852
Type: Exhibition
Description: Industrial exhibition held in Cork in 1852, in support of 'the Industrial Movement in Ireland'.
Contained a Fine Arts Section, including paintings on canvas, paintings on glass, architectural drawings and Irish Antiquities.
Many sculptural works also featured and included pieces by John Hogan (4), Patrick MacDowell (2), James Heffernan (3), J. Farrell (3), Joseph Kirk (2), J. H. Foley (2), Edward Arlington Foley (several busts and drawing after a statue), Christopher Moore (busts), John E. Jones (busts and a figural group), R. Barter (busts), Thomas Kirk (2 busts) and E. Ambrose (figural group in marble).
A number of other busts, low-reliefs, figures and vases in Caen Stone were exhibited, in addition to casts and models, executed by the following individuals: George Newenham, R. Hannigan, William Burnett, G. Stanley, Francis Burnett, R. Ball, G. E. Powell, J. Morrough, F. Harty, D. Keily, Joseph Corbett (ivory carvings), Cornelius De Groot (wood carvings), Mrs Fitzgibbon, Cork (Group of Venus and Cupid) and Miss Lewd, Dublin (a statuette).
Display Arrangement: Reference Ground Plan as featured in book.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Exhibitors included Cornelius de Groot
'Carvers, Gilders and Looking-Glass Manufacturers'.
Participants
Exhibitors included John Hogan
Exhibitors included Patrick MacDowell
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
Exhibitors included John Henry Foley
Exhibitors included Edward Arlington Foley
Exhibitors included Christopher Moore
Exhibitors included John Edward Jones
Exhibitors included Richard F. Barter
Exhibitors included Thomas Kirk
Exhibitors included Edward Ambrose
Exhibitors included Rodolphus Hannigan
Exhibitors included William Burnett
Exhibitors included Francis Burnett
Citing this record
'The National Exhibition, Cork, 1852', 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_1206561264, accessed 23 Mar 2023]
