Advertising Card
Exeter Published by the firm nd c1900
Single sided photographic print on larger card with caption below 280x240mm The text reads "Harry Hems and Sons Ecclesiastical & Architectural Sculptors and general workers in Stone Marble and Wood Exeter" Established 1866. Image shows the premises of the firm and associated building materials yard. Small arrow and printed text on one side says "To figure studio." Some light foxing and paper a little browned else very good. Harry Hems 12 June 1842 – 5 January 1916 was a sculptor who came from London to Exeter to work on the Museum building in 1868. His firm expanded to employ some 100 craftsmen working mostly in wood and stone. Throughout his career he collected salvaged medieval woodwork which now forms a collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art. Gallery. He built new premises in the 1880s which survive as Hems's "Ye Luckie Horseshoe Studio", Longbrook Street, Exeter, now a restaurant and conference facility. He worked throughout the UK and his work was awarded prizes at a number of World Fairs, including at Philadelphia in 1876 and Chicago in 1893.