The Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin, 1853
Start Date: 12 May 1853
End Date: 1853
Type: Exhibition of Art-Industry
Description: Exhibition of Arts and Industries, including a separate sculpture section in table of contents, with works (and illustrations of same) by Foley, MacDowell, Rauch, Marshall, Theed, Thorwaldsen, Baily, and Fraikin.
Sculptural works by Bell, Earle, Mrs Thorneycroft, Francis, Monro, Monti, Noble and the Baron Marochetti, Geefs and David D'Angiers are also listed in introductory text (p. vi), but no subsequent details of works by this latter group included.
Associated companies are also featured and include Blashfield & Ferguson, Miller & Co., of England, Terra-Cotta manufacturers, in addition to Potts, a manufacturer of sepuchral monuments and Villemsens of Paris, manufacturers of objects in bronze, a market leader in the production of ecclesiastical objects.
An Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin, in 1853 was published as part of the Art Journal in 1853, to commemorate the importance of the event.
Policy: 'We believe that this Exhibition will contribute very largely to render Ireland that which she is so eminently qualified to become - a manufacturing country; that the fertile South and the richly endowed West will ere long emulate the North; and that hitherto undeveloped sources of prosperity and power in Ireland will date a new era from the exhibition of 1853'.
Display Arrangement: Sculptures scattered in various parts of the building, as per introductory text, p. vi.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Psyche
Exhibition included Pendant Flower pots in Terra-Cotta
Exhibition included Grief
Exhibition included The Danaid
Exhibition included Brackets and framed mirror, ornately carved in wood
1853
Listed in Table of Contents as:
'Clarke, Dublin. Wood-carving, p. 56'.
Exhibition included Fountain
Exhibition included Ino and Bacchus
Exhibition included Sabrina
Exhibition included Dancing Girl Reposing
1853
Exhibition included Innocence
1853
Exhibition included Night
Exhibition included Morning
Exhibition included Eve at the Fountain
Exhibition included Cupid Captive
Exhibition included Early Sorrow
Exhibition included Brackets, richly carved in lime wood
1853
Organizing Institution or Venue
Exhibitors included John Marriot Blashfield
p. 56, illustrated
Exhibitors included Ferguson, Miller & Co.
p. 55, illustrated
Exhibitors included William Potts
pp. 18-19, illustrated
Exhibitors included M. Villemsens
1853
pp. 38, 54
Exhibitors included John Doulton Sen.
1853
Participants
Exhibitors included John Henry Foley
'Innocence'
Exhibitors included Patrick MacDowell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Clarke
'Brackets and framed mirror, ornately carved in wood'
Exhibitors included C. Rauch
'The Danaid'
Exhibitors included Charles-Auguste Fraikin
Exhibitors included Edward Hodges Baily
Exhibitors included William Calder Marshall
Exhibitors included (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti
listed as an exhibitor in text, p. vi.
Exhibitors included William Theed
'The Betrothed' (marble bust, p. 106 (111), offered for sale £40 0s. 0d.).
Exhibitors included (Albert) Bertel Thorvaldsen
Exhibitors included Mary Thornycroft
listed as an exhibitor in text, p. vi.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin, 1853', 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_1214993967, accessed 03 Mar 2021]
