The Thirty-Eighth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
End Date: 1903
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 619 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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, Pottery and Sculpture displayed with pictures in the North Room and in the centre of the Great Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Enamelled Copper Vase
1903
Exhibition included A Clasp and Necklace
1903
Exhibition included Case of Personal Ornaments
1903
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1903
Exhibition included Portrait Bust
1903
Exhibition included Paolo and Francesca
1903
Exhibition included Paderewski
1903
Exhibition included Blanche
1903
Exhibition included Nydia
1903
Exhibition included Head of John the Baptist
1903
Exhibition included The Lady Dorothy Nevill
1903
Exhibition included Silver Bracelet and Brooch
1903
Exhibition included Idyll
Exhibition included Prince Leopold
Posthumous showing
Offered for sale Case of Personal Ornaments
prices ranging from £1 to £5
Offered for sale Case of Jewellery
prices ranged from £6 6s. to £4 4s.
Offered for sale Enamelled Copper Vase
1903
£15
Three vases listed with the same title were offered for sale at this price.
Offered for sale Head of John the Baptist
1903
£12 12s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
'Blanche'
Exhibitors included John Wenlock Rollins
'Nydia'
Exhibitors included Alexandre Zeitlin
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Mark Arthur Rollason
'Silver Bracelet and Brooch'
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Hubert von Herkomer
'Enamelled Copper Vase'
Exhibitors included Albert E.V. Lilley
'A Clasp and Necklace'
Exhibitors included C. Ceals Hopkins
'Case of Personal Ornaments '
Exhibitors included Harry Rembrandt Fowler
'Case of Jewellery'
Exhibitors included Ethel Isabel Cook
'Portrait Bust '
Sources
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Eighth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1903
1903
pp. 55-60 (572-74, 577, 593, 608, 609-10; 'Sculpture': 611-19)
Citing this record
'The Thirty-Eighth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903', 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_1203595026, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
