The Seventy-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1905
End Date: 1905
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 674 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 and sculpture exhibited with pictures in the Octagon Room and in the North Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Case of Art Metal Work
1905
Exhibition included Oberon
1905
Exhibition included Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery
1905
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1905
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait
1905
Exhibition included Medallion of Sir G. Gabriel Stokes, FRS
1905
Exhibition included R. Phene Spiers, Esq.
1905
Exhibition included Case of Medals, etc.
1905
Exhibition included Altar Cross
1905
Exhibition included Jewellery
1905
Exhibition included Phyllis
1905
Exhibition included The Water Nymph
1905
Exhibition included Model Design
1905
Exhibition included F. M. Earl Roberts, VC
1905
Exhibition included The Bread Winner
1905
Exhibition included The Little Help Mate
1905
Exhibition included Model Design, no. 2
Offered for sale Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery
prices ranged from 17s. 6d. to £3 3s.
Offered for sale Case of Jewellery
prices range from £1 15s. to £5 5s.
Offered for sale Case of Art Metal Work
1905
prices ranged from 5s. 6d. to £4 4s.
Offered for sale Oberon
1905
£52 10s.
Offered for sale Jewellery
1905
Prices described as being 'avaliable on application to Secretary.'
Offered for sale Phyllis
1905
£7 7s.
Offered for sale The Water Nymph
1905
£7 7s.
Offered for sale The Bread Winner
1905
£15 15s.
Participants
Exhibitors included G. Logan
'Phyllis'
Exhibitors included Gertrude Smith
'The Water Nymph'
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
'Model Design'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edouard Lanteri
'R. Phene Spiers, Esq.'
Exhibitors included E. Grace Bourne
'Case of Art Metal Work'
Exhibitors included Florence M. Rimmington
'Case of Art Metal Work'
Exhibitors included (Peter) Frederick Marriott
'Oberon'
Exhibitors included Florence Sarah Stern
'Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery '
Exhibitors included Gertrude Conolly
'Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery '
Exhibitors included Margaret J. Awdry
'Case of Jewellery '
Exhibitors included George James Frampton
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Seventy-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1905', 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_1203425820, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
