The Seventy-Eighth Autumn 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 735 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 exhibited with miniatures and pictures in the centre of the Great Room. Jewellery exhibited in the Secretary's Office. Pottery and Sculpture exhibited in the North Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Pope Leo XIII
Exhibition included Panel from 'Festus'
Exhibition included Love Lies Bleeding
1904
Exhibition included La Mendiant
1904
Exhibition included Flore
1904
Exhibition included A Shepherd Boy
1904
lent by James Gresham, Esq., JP
Exhibition included Harold H. Hilton, Esq., Amateur Champion 1900-1901
1904
Exhibition included The Butterfly
1904
Exhibition included Reverie
1904
Exhibition included Madonna
1904
Exhibition included Bust
1904
Exhibition included H. H. Armstead, Esq., R.A.
1904
Exhibition included The Late Philip James Bailey
1904
Exhibition included Silver Necklace
1904
Exhibition included Ruskin Pottery
1904
Exhibition included Enamels, Pendants, and Portrait
Offered for sale Pope Leo XIII
£30
Offered for sale Panel from 'Festus'
£21
Offered for sale La Mendiant
1904
£15 15s.
Offered for sale Flore
1904
£8 8s.
Offered for sale Reverie
1904
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Madonna
1904
£8
Offered for sale Silver Necklace
1904
£4 10s.
Offered for sale Ruskin Pottery
1904
catalogue entry includes nine objects under the title 'Ruskin Pottery': 1. Bowl, Dead Texture, with Green Spots
(£2); 2. Bowl (18s.); 3. Small Bowl, Dead Texture (£1); 4. Blue Bowl (6s.); 5. Blue Bowl, with Dead Effect Outside (6s.); 6. Green Bowl, inside Dark Blue (5s.); 7. Vase (6s.); 8. Small Vase (3s.); 9. Cov. Vase, with pierced Top (8s. 6d.)
Participants
Exhibitors included Frank Baxter
'Love Lies Bleeding'
Exhibitors included William Howson Taylor
'Ruskin Pottery '
Exhibitors included Edward Richard Taylor
'Ruskin Pottery '
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
'Panel from 'Festus''
Exhibitors included Annie Steen
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Robert Colton
'H. H. Armstead, Esq., R.A. '
Exhibitors included John Tweed
'Bust'
Exhibitors included Francis H. Aloysius Jahn
'Madonna'
Exhibitors included Hibbert Charles Binney
'Reverie'
Exhibitors included Clovis Delacour
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Cassidy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
Multiple works
Sources
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Seventy-eighth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1904 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1904
pp. 60-64 (Jewellery: 707, 718-19, 721; Pottery: 723; Sculpture: 724-35)
Citing this record
'The Seventy-Eighth Autumn 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_1203414105, accessed 30 May 2023]
