The Eighty-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1908-1909
Start Date: September 1908
End Date: January 1909
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 622 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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. Sculpture and jewellery exhibited with pictures in the West Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Sir William Treloar, Bart, Lord Mayor of London, 1907
1908
Exhibition included Alfred East, Esq., ARA, PRBA
1908
Exhibition included The Crown of War
1908
Exhibition included William Strang, Esq., ARA
1908
Exhibition included The Piper
1908
Exhibition included The Pet Rat
1908
Exhibition included 'Hush-a-by baby, on a tree top'
1908
Exhibition included The Rt Hon. (the late) W. E. Gladstone
1908
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1908
Exhibition included Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery
1908
Offered for sale Case of Jewellery
prices ranged from £1 5s. to £3 3s.
Offered for sale Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery
prices ranged from 17s. 6d. to £4 4s.
Offered for sale The Crown of War
1908
£84
Offered for sale The Pet Rat
1908
£3 10s.
Offered for sale 'Hush-a-by baby, on a tree top'
1908
£15 15s.
Offered for sale The Rt Hon. (the late) W. E. Gladstone
1908
£52 10s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Kate Muriel Eadie
'Case of Jewellery '
Exhibitors included Florence Sarah Stern
'Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery '
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
''Hush-a-by baby, on a tree top''
Exhibitors included Melicent Stone
'The Pet Rat '
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George James Frampton
'William Strang, Esq., ARA'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Eighty-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1908-1909', 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_1203685624, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
