The Thirty-Ninth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1904
End Date: 1904
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 644 works.
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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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. Jewellery displayed with pictures in the Octagon Room and at the end of the Long Room. Sculptures displayed with pictures in the Great Room, and with the 'Ruskin Society's Section: Old Industries and Peasant Work, etc.', in the North Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Silverwork Hammered Wire
Exhibition included Panel
Exhibition included The Dustman
exhibited with the 'Ruskin Society's Section: Old Industries and Peasant Work, etc.'
Exhibition included Ruskin Pottery
Exhibition included Miss EllalineTerriss
1904
Exhibition included Model of part of a Decorative Scheme in Bronze and Ivory for the Peninsular and Oriental S.S. Co.'s 'Mongolia'
1904
Exhibition included Necklace
1904
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1904
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1904
Exhibition included Venus
1904
Exhibition included Frame of Jewellery
1904
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1904
Exhibition included Casket
1904
lent to the exhibition by Mr Chamberlain
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1904
Exhibition included Miss Lillian Ingram
1904
Offered for sale Silverwork Hammered Wire
Case includes eighteen objects: A. 5 brooches set with Brazilian beetles (10s. 6d. each); B. 3 belt clasps set with agate (£1 1s.); C. spoon set with amethyst (£1 1s.); D. pair buttons set with carbuncles (7s. 6d.); E. brooch set with agate (7s. 6d.); F. brooch set with agate (10s. 6d.); G. brooch set with amethyst (10s. 6d.); H. brooch set with amethyst (7s. 6d.); I. 3 tie pins set with opal and turquoise matrix (£7 6s.); J. gold rings set with moonstones (£1 1s.)
Offered for sale Case of Jewellery
a) Pendant (Gold and Opals), £3 10s.;
b) Lace Pin (Silver and Amazons), £1 1s.;
c) Pendant and Chain (Silver, Opal, and Pearls), £3 13s. 6d.;
d) Pendant (Silver, Pearl and Turquoise), £1 5s.;
e) Scarf Pin (Gold and Opal), £1 1s.;
f) Lace Pin (Silver and Opal), 15s.;
g) Bracelet.
Offered for sale Case of Jewellery
1. Brooch (Silver, set Opals), £3 10s.;
2. Necklet (Silver and Gold, with set Opal Matrix), £7 7s.
Offered for sale Case of Jewellery
1. Silver Cross set with Emeralds, £3 3s.;
2. Silver Necklace, with Sapphire and Chrisoprases, £3 3s.;
3. Silver Button - set of six, £4 10s.;
4. Copper Thimble, 10s.;
5. Silver Thimble, 10s.;
6. Gold Thimble, £1 1s.;
7. Silver Chain and Pendant, set with a Topaz and Chrysolitis, £4;
8. Silver Cloak Clasp, set with Agates and Serpentine, £4;
9. Silver Belt Clasp, set with Turquoise, etc., £3 3s.
Offered for sale Miss EllalineTerriss
1904
£10 10s.
Offered for sale Venus
1904
£12 12s.
Offered for sale Frame of Jewellery
1904
Contained four objects that are listed as:
gold pendant, 15ct, set wih opals (£5 5s.)
pendant, jasper, mounted in gold, 15ct (£2 2s.)
gold pendant, 15ct, set with turquoise matrix (£8 8s.)
gold bracelet, 15ct., set with turquoise matrix (£4 4s.)
Offered for sale Evening: The Old Charwoman
1904
£367 10s.
Offered for sale The Dustman
1904
£78 15s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Eirian Francis
'Case of Jewellery'
Exhibitors included John W. Moore
'Case of Jewellery'
Exhibitors included John Paul Cooper
'Venus '
Exhibitors included Harry Rembrandt Fowler
'Frame of Jewellery'
Exhibitors included Annie Steen
'Case of Jewellery '
Exhibitors included L. Frances Wilson
'Miss Lillian Ingram'
Exhibitors included (Peter) Frederick Marriott
'Panel '
Exhibitors included (Frank) Pickford Marriott
'Panel '
Exhibitors included Mark Arthur Rollason
'Necklace'
Exhibitors included Harry A. Squire
'Silverwork Hammered Wire'
Exhibitors included Frank Lynn Jenkins
'Model of part of a Decorative Scheme in Bronze and Ivory for the Peninsular and Oriental S.S. Co.'s 'Mongolia''
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
'Miss EllalineTerriss'
Exhibitors included A. H. Jones
'Case of Jewellery'
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
'The Dustman'
Exhibitors included William Howson Taylor
'Ruskin Pottery'
Exhibitors included Harry (Henry) Wilson
'Casket '
Sources
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Ninth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1904
1904
pp. 54-59 (Miniatures, Jewellery and Ceramics: 594-642, Sculpture: 643-44)
Citing this record
'The Thirty-Ninth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1904', 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_1203335097, accessed 27 Feb 2021]
