The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Thirtieth (Summer Exhibition), 1898
Start Date: 2 May 1898
End Date: 1 August 1898
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 294,433 people visited the exhibition. A total of 1967 works were displayed. 192 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 22 were sculptures. Of the 1775 works shown by non-members, 139 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 Henry Hugh Armstead
5 April 1898 - 18 April 1898
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1898' (1899), p. 26.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Thirtieth (Summer Exhibition), 1898', 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_1217941790, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
