Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Seventh Autumn Exhibition, 1889
Start Date: August 1889
End Date: December 1889
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 'The galleries are thrown open to the public (free), and a gratuitous catalogue provided by the Committee during the last four Sundays of the year. Number of visitors admitted, 19,425' (Year's Art, 1890, pp. 120-21).
Policy: 'The regulations for exhibitors are the usual ones. Commission on sales, 5 per cent. London agents: Messrs. Dicksee & Co., King Street, S.W. All letters respecting the Exhibition are to be addressed to Mr. William Stanfield, Curator, the City Art Gallery, Manchester. [...] The sum of £2,000 per annum, with the net profits arising from exhibitions, is available for purchase of works of Art for the permanent collection' (Year's Art, 1890, pp. 120-21).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture shown in Gallery X.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Love's Chalice
Exhibition included Hero of the Sea
Exhibition included The Late Right Reverend James Fraser, Lord Bishop of Manchester
Exhibition included Female Head, Semi-Ideal
Exhibition included Douglas, Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Gore Booth, RE
Exhibition included Major Chard, VC
Offered for sale Hero of the Sea
£8
Offered for sale Female Head, Semi-Ideal
On sale by commission in marble for £52 10s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Isabella Gore Booth
'Douglas, Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Gore Booth, RE'
Exhibitors included Edgar George Papworth Jnr
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Holding II
'Hero of the Sea'
Exhibitors included Joseph William Swynnerton
'Love's Chalice'
Citing this record
'Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Seventh Autumn Exhibition, 1889', 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_1220989169, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
