EPS   -  1876 Open Exhibition

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Admission Charges

The Exhibition was held at the Royal Scottish Academy and was open for 2 months. 

This view inside the National Gallery gives an idea of the surroundings of the Exhibition.

Admission charges were:. 

                     -   During the day       1/-  (or Family 3 for 2/-)
                     -   Evening                  6d  (or family 3 for 1/-)
                     -   Whole period         2/6d.

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Visitors

Six hundred guests were invited to the Opening of the Exhibition in December 1876.

The British Journal of Photography reported in February 1877, shortly after the exhibition closed:

" ... the commercial success of the Exhibition ... would have been much greater had the Committee of Management not been compelled to close so soon in order to permit preparations to be made for the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy.

From the very beginning the Exhibition continued day by day to increase in public favour; and on the last day but one there was a throng of private carriages in waiting, and an amount of over seventy pounds was taken at the entrance.

That sum would at least represent fifteen hundred visitors, in addition to the large number of season and complimentary tickets."

[BJP:  9 Feb 1877; p.63]

Sale of Photos

Many of the visitors enquired about purchasing photographs, but it was reported that for three-quarters of the enquiries the answer given was 'not for sale' or 'no price given'.

About two hundred photos were sold

The most expensive photograph in the exhibition was 'Preparing Spring Flowers for the Market' by HP Robinson of Tunbridge Wells.  This photograph was sold.

[BJP: 26 Jan 1877; p.39:  9 Feb 1877; p.63]

EPS 1876 Open Exhibition

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