The Thirty-Second Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1897
End Date: 1897
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 640 works.
Sculpture and Miniatures were listed together in the exhibition catalogue.
Policy: The Notice to Exhibitors page stated: 'no Works which have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs) can be received.'
Display Arrangement: Exhibition held in six rooms. Sculpture and Miniatures were exhibited with pictures in the West Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included A Bowl of Cacttus-Dahlias
1897
Exhibition included Portrait
1897
Exhibition included Vanity
1897
Exhibition included Holda
1897
Exhibition included Stealth
1897
Exhibition included Christmas Day, The Unwanted
1897
Exhibition included The Late Captain Harry Mitchell
1897
Offered for sale A Bowl of Cacttus-Dahlias
1897
£8 8s.
Offered for sale Vanity
1897
£15 15s.
Offered for sale Holda
1897
£8 8s.
Offered for sale Stealth
1897
£4 4s.
Offered for sale Christmas Day, The Unwanted
1897
£7 7s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Joseph Gibbs
'The Late Captain Harry Mitchell'
Exhibitors included Hené Wheelwright
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Clement William Jewitt
'Holda'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
'Vanity'
Exhibitors included Martha A. Onions
'Portrait'
Exhibitors included M. Nellie Gibson
'A Bowl of Cacttus-Dahlias'
Citing this record
'The Thirty-Second Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 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=msib4_1202895180, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
