The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1897
Start Date: 3 May 1897
End Date: 2 August 1897
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 247,715 people visited the exhibition. A total of 2104 works were displayed. 182 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 22 were sculptures. Of the 1922 works shown by non-members, 150 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 William Hamo Thornycroft
6 April 1897 - 19 April 1897 (Presumed)
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture, until 'owing to his [Thornycroft's] illness', this was taken over by 'Mr. Armstead'. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1897' (1898), p. 25.
Exhibitors included Henry Hugh Armstead
6 April 1897 (Presumed) - 19 April 1897 (Presumed)
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture after W. H. Thornycroft (owing to Thornycroft's illness). See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1897' (1898), p. 25.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1897', 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_1217941721, accessed 29 May 2023]
