Period
Modern
Person
Benjamin Wyon
(engraver)
, William Shakespeare
(subject)
Metal
copper alloy
Technique
struck
Dating
1851
Note
Awarded in 1851 (therefore making this object one of the three earliest) in connection with Seeley's essay, "A Parallel between Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear and Oedipus in Colono of Sophocles: Stating the General Design of Each Play and Contrasting the Characters Introduced in Their Points of Similarity and Dissimilarity", in "Three Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear by Pupils of the City of London School", London, 1851; see Rein (1987).