Period
Modern
Person
William Shakespeare, Conrad Heinrich Küchler
Mint
Soho, Birmingham (Modern)
Dating
1803
Obverse
HE WAS A MAN / TAKE HIM FOR ALL IN ALL / I SHALL NOT LOOK / UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN / M·B . SOHO / C · H · KUCHLER . F, William Shakespeare seated on a rock flanked by the Dramatic Muse (with cithara and laurel wreath), reaching to crown Shakespeare, and the Genius of Painting (with palette), after the sculpture by Thomas Banks (1789); inscription on base of rock
Reverse
THIS / MEDAL / REPRESENTING SHAKSPEARE BETWEEN / THE DRAMATICK MUSE AND THE GENIUS OF PAINTING / IS RESPECTFULLY PRESENTED TO / THE PERSON / WHOSE NAME IT BEARS / IN GRATEFUL COMMEMORATION OF THE GENEROUS SUPPORT / GIVEN BY THE SUBSCRIBERS / TO THAT GREAT NATIONAL EDITION OF THAT / IMMORTAL POET / BY / I . I. & J. N. BOYDELL. / AND / G. & .W . NICOL. / 1803., inscription around, within rays; a harp with olive branch on scroll