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Glasgow Exhibition 1888
Purchased 1941
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<p>The International Exhibitions held in Britain’s great industrial cities became increasingly sumptuous towards the end of the century. The first Scottish Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow attracted over five million visitors and led to the building of Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. Lavery recorded the exhibition in 40 on-the-spot impressionist sketches. These small scenes provided the background for a commission to paint a commemoration picture of Queen Victoria’s State Visit in August 1888.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
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2014-08-07
Gallery 9
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The Glasgow Exhibition, 1888
support: 235 × 349 mm
frame: 405 × 502 × 90 mm
Purchased 1941
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<p>The International Exhibitions held in Britain’s great industrial cities became increasingly sumptuous towards the end of the century. The first Scottish Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow attracted over five million visitors and led to the building of Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. Lavery recorded the exhibition in 40 on-the-spot impressionist sketches. These small scenes provided the background for a commission to paint a commemoration picture of Queen Victoria’s State Visit in August 1888.</p>
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<p><b>N05271</b> THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION, 1888 1888
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<br/>Inscr. ‘J Lavery 88’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on panel, 9 1/4×13 3/4 (23·5×35).
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1941.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Craibe Angus Gallery, Glasgow, spring 1888; Leicester Galleries, April 1941 (1).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Shaw-Sparrow, n.d., p.173; Lavery, 1940, p.60.</p>
<p>Probably one of the about forty sketches of scenes in the grounds of the Glasgow Exhibition of 1888 whose exhibition (see above) led to the commission for the commemoration picture of Queen Victoria's State Visit, 22 August 1888, now in Glasgow (repr. Lavery, 1940, after p.267).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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adults architecture art and craft café column eating eating and drinking exhibition exhibition: Glasgow Exhibition, 1888 features Glasgow Glasgow - non-specific group groups history leisure and pastimes man people places places of entertainment politics and society Scotland trading and commercial UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions waiter / waitress woman work and occupations