The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1896
Start Date: 4 May 1896
End Date: 3 August 1896
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 286,313 people visited the exhibition. A total of 1928 works were displayed. 180 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 19 were sculptures. Of the 1748 works shown by non-members, 119 were sculptures.
Policy: Source contains 'Notice To Exhibitors' which outlines rules for submission, requirements for frames, etc. For example: 'No works which have been already publicly exhibited'.
Participants
Exhibition committee member Edward Onslow Ford
6 April 1896 - 20 April 1896
A 'Mr. Ford' is listed as being responsible for the arrangement of sculpture for the exhibition. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1896' (1897), p. 28.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 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=msib7_1217941646, accessed 03 Oct 2023]
