The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1906
Start Date: 7 May 1906
End Date: 6 August 1906
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: The exhibition was visited by 267,063 people. 1,799 works were displayed. 203 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, 26 of which were sculptures. Of the 1,596 works shown by non-members, 156 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
16 April 1906 - 23 May 1906
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1906' (1907), p. 28.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1906', 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_1217942577, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
