Leeds Mechanics' Institution, Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Leeds, 1875
Start Date: May 1875
End Date: 1875 (Presumed)
Type: Exhibition
Description: An exhibition of illustrative examples, chronologically arranged from prehistoric times to contemporary, describing the branches of the arts and manufacturing overseen by the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society and Schools of Science and Art. Exhibits were organised by the Fine Art Department, the Science Department, the Machinery Department, the Manufactures Department and the Sanitary Department.
Display Arrangement: The main Fine Art Department exhibition was in the North Gallery of the Cloth Hall, to the rear of the Mechanics' Institution. Objects listed from the catalogue with the F suffix refer to this building. Those with the G suffix were displayed at Farnley H
Exhibits
Exhibition included Bust of Garibaldi
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
Exhibition included Bust of Bishop of Manchester
Exhibition included Sleeping Child Veiled
Exhibition included The Listening Schoolboy (Suggested by Blair's Poem)
Exhibition included Cromwell
Exhibition included Early Genius
Exhibition included Sleeping Child and Dog
Exhibition included Duke of Wellington
Exhibition included Seated Figure of the Rev. William Harcourt
Exhibition included Bust of T. R. Harding
Exhibition included Bust of Mr Foster, Hornby Castle
Exhibition included Bust of the Lord Mayor of Leeds
Exhibition included Bust of the Late Sir Edmund Beckett
Exhibition included Bust of Shakespeare
Exhibition included Cupid and Psyche
Exhibition included Ophelia
Exhibition included Theotokus
Exhibition included Right Hon. George Canning
Exhibition included Group
Exhibition included Innocence
Exhibition included Obedience
Exhibition included Portrait of a Child
Exhibition included Bust of a Boy
Exhibition included Queen Caroline
Exhibition included Napoleon
Exhibition included Queen Elizabeth
Exhibition included Emperor Nicholas, Grandfather of H.R.H. the Duchess of Edinburgh
Exhibition included Sabrina
Exhibition included Neptune
Exhibition included Portrait
Offered for sale Cupid and Psyche
Offered for sale Innocence
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Committee of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society and Schools of Science and Art
Participants
Exhibitors included John Throp
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Benjamin Burstall
'Group'
Exhibitors included Raffaelle Monti
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Joseph William Swynnerton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Trentanoor Reni
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Wormald Appleyard
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Anthony Welsh
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Matthew Noble
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Henry Foley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Henry Weekes
'Bust of T. R. Harding'
Exhibitors included Thomas Nelson MacLean
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Leeds Mechanics\' Institution, Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Leeds, 1875', 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=msib5_1206634521, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
