British educational award medal - City of London School Beaufoy Medal – HCR92647

Obverse

Inscription:

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BORN APRIL 23. 1564 DIED APRIL 23. 1616 / BENJ WYON SC.

Design:

Bust of William Shakespeare, draped, left, with pointed beard, after the Stratford memorial bust

Reverse

Inscription:

CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL / SHAKESPEARIAN PRIZE / FOUNDED 1851 / BY HENRY B.H. BEAUFOY F.R.S. BORN APRIL 23. 1785 / B. WYON SC

Design:

A group of Shakespearian characters - Prospero and Ariel, Cardinal Wolsey, Lady Macbeth, Falstaff, Poins and Henry V; inscription in exergue

Information

Person

Benjamin Wyon (engraver) , William Shakespeare (subject)

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).

Period

Modern

Kind

medal

Metal

copper alloy

Reign

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

250.14

Diameter (mm)

77.3

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition collection reference

Acquisition date

6/2019

Source

J. Eric Engstrom

Acquisition credit

Presented by J. Eric Engstrom, 2019.

Acquisition note

J. Eric Engstrom Shakespeare Medal Collection

Edge inscription

JOHN ROBERT SEELEY 1851

Source of portrait

Stratford memorial bust

Country of origin

Great Britain

Reference

Hawkins, Edward - 1885 - Medallic illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II : 213

Note:

p. 57

Reference

Ogden, W. S. - 1910 - Shakspere's portraiture: painted, graven, and medallic :

Note:

p. 188

Reference

Eimer, C. - 1987 - British commemorative medals and their values : 1454

Note:

p. 173

Reference

British Museum Collection Online : https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_M-4268

Reference

Rein, Gustav Adolf - 1987 - Sir John Robert Seeley : a study of the historian :

Note:

p. 122

Contributors to this coin record

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