The Seventy-First Autumn 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 764 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 together with pictures in the North Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Eve
1897
Exhibition included Day Dreams
1897
Exhibition included Long Shore Fisherman
1897
Exhibition included Children of a Hundred Arts
1897
Exhibition included Moths
1897
Exhibition included A Cavalier
1897
Exhibition included Miss Mary Creswick
1897
Exhibition included Building the Partheon
1897
Exhibition included The Queen
1897
Offered for sale Day Dreams
1897
£6 6s.
Offered for sale Long Shore Fisherman
1897
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Children of a Hundred Arts
1897
£10 10s.
Offered for sale Moths
1897
£15 15s.
Offered for sale A Cavalier
1897
£4 4s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Louise
'The Queen'
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Winifred Arthur
'A Cavalier'
Exhibitors included Léon Albert Vincent Solon
Multiple works
Exhibitors included A. Hopkins
'Long Shore Fisherman '
Exhibitors included Clara Hill
'Day Dreams'
Exhibitors included William Henry Longmaid
'Eve'
Citing this record
'The Seventy-First Autumn 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_1202897690, accessed 24 Sep 2023]