The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventieth, 1896
End Date: 1896
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827.
Policy: To encourage the practice of the Fine Arts in Scotland by showing to the public representative collections of works mainly from Scottish artists of the time.
Works shown at the RSA Annual Exhibition should be by living artists only, although a few works in reality were exhibited posthumously. Most works were submitted, although a number were 'invited' (RSA Dictionary, vol. 1, p. xv).
In addition to the Annual Exhibitions the Academy occasionally places on view, at another season of the year, memorial collections of the works of eminent artists recently deceased.
For further information on the history of the RSA see Frank Rinder & W. D. McKay, The Royal Scottish Academy, 1826-1916 (Glasgow: University Press, 1917) and Esme Gordon, The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture 1826-1976 (Edinburgh: Charles Skilton, 1976).
See also http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/menu_page.asp/.
Display Arrangement: All sculpture exhibited together in the Third Archway (Great Room).
Exhibits
Exhibition included The late Joseph Thomson, African explorer
1896
Exhibition included Dr Argyle Robertson
1896
Exhibition included Moorish powder play
1896
Exhibition included W. Q. Orchardson, RA, HRSA
1896
Exhibition included Head
1896
Exhibition included The late Charles Jenner, Esq.
1896
Exhibition included Pasquccia, Roman study
1896
Participants
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
'Head'
Exhibitors included Cecil Hew Brown
'Moorish powder play'
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Giovanni Bozzi
'Dr Argyle Robertson'
Exhibitors included John Wilson Dods
'The late Joseph Thomson, African explorer'
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting Sculpture, and Architecture, MDCCCXCVI, The Seventieth
1896
Illustrated Catalogue
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventieth, 1896', 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=msib6_1206546528, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
