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Medals & Decorations

The Ashmolean Museum has a very good collection of British historical medals, dating from the Tudor period to the present day, with particularly high concentrations for the 18th and 19th centuries. Its continental and world holdings are very diverse, with some particularly significant medals of the Italian Renaissance; Germany and the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Baroque age; the papacy; etc. The decorations are mostly British and date from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

Trial strike for a modern medal (HCR95680)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

17th-19th centuries

Obverse

SHAKESPERE, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, right

Trial strike for a modern medal (HCR95681)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

17th-19th centuries

Obverse

SHAKESPERE, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, right

Coronation medal of Edward VI, eighteenth century copy (HCR95031)

Period

Modern

Person

Edward VI, king of England, 1547-1553, Henry Basse

Dating

eighteenth century?

Obverse

EDWARDVS VI D G ANG FR E HIB REX FIDEI DEFNS E IN TERRIS ANG E HIB ECCLE CAPVT SVPREMUM CORONATVS EST MD XLVI XX FEBRVA ETATIS DECIMO, Half length figure of Edward VI right

Reverse

ΕΔΟΡΔΟΣ O EKTOΣ O THI TOΥ ΘΕΟΥ XAPITI THΣ AΓΓΛΙΑΣ ΦPAΓΧΙΑΣ TE KAI IBEINIAΣ BAΣIΛΕΥΣ THΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΗΣ, KAI THΣ EN ΓΗΙ EKKΛΗΣΙΑΣ AΓΓΛΙΚΗΣ KAI IBEPNIXHΣ H ΠΡΩΤΗ KEΦAΛΗ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΘΕΙΣ ΕΤΕΙ. X., inscription - Greek and Hebrew translations of the obverse legend

Modern plaque (HCR95045)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

18th-19th century; c. 1864?

Obverse

high relief bust of William Shakespeare, right, within an oval tondo

Modern plaque (HCR95059)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

18th-19th century; c. 1864?

Obverse

high relief bust of William Shakespeare, right, within an oval tondo

British commemorative medal (HCR95659)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Thomas Sharp

Dating

18th century

Stratford memorial halfpenny (HCR137451)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

18th century

Obverse

STRATFORD PROMISSORY HALF HALFPENNY, bust of William Shakespeare, bare head right

Reverse

STRUCK / IN HONOR AND / TO PERPETUATE / THE MEMORY OF / SHAKESPEARE / BORN APRIL 1564 / DIED APRIL / 1616, inscription

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95879)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95880)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95881)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95882)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95883)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95884)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR102431)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1730s

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

Swiss commemorative medal (HCR95596)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Jean Dassier

Dating

1731-1864

Obverse

GULIELMUS SHAKESPEARE., bust of William Shakespeare, ¾ right

Reverse

WILD ABOVE RULE OR ART. / NAT · 1564 ·, rocky landscape with clouds and birds; inscription in exergue

British theatre pass (HCR95889)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

1759

Obverse

THEATRE / DRURY / LANE, bust of William Shakespeare, facing, wearing jacket and waistcoat

British theatre pass (HCR95890)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1770

Obverse

THEATRE / PROPRIETOR, bust of William Shakespeare, left, within a border of laurel

Irish theatre pass (HCR95893)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1770

Obverse

engraved full length portrait of William Shakespeare, facing, in gown; leaning upon a pedestal on which there are three books

Reverse

THEATRE SMOCK-ALLEY / Mʳ. / John Long / Ticket, name of theatre within a banner, presenting floral motifs; name of the recipient redacted and illegible