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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.

British memorial medal - Stratford Jubilee medal (HCR95887)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J Westwood Sr., David Garrick

Dating

1769

Obverse

WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN. / WESTWOOD. F, bust of William Shakespeare, bare head right

British memorial medal - Stratford Jubilee medal (HCR95888)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J Westwood Sr., David Garrick

Dating

1769

Obverse

WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN. / WESTWOOD. F., bust of William Shakespeare, bare head right

British memorial medal - Stratford Jubilee medal (HCR102410)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J Westwood Sr., David Garrick

Dating

1769

Obverse

WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN. / WESTWOOD. F., bust of William Shakespeare, bare head right

British theatre pass (HCR95896)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1780

Obverse

WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN, bust of William Shakespeare, right

Reverse

PRESTON / Nᵒ. 11 / THEATRE, musical instruments tied by a ribbon; oval in centre; book, pipes, hilt, laurel, acorn, goblet, trumpets, and classicizing masks of tragicomedy around

British laudatory medal - David Garrick (HCR95892)

Period

Modern

Person

David Garrick, L. Pingo

Dating

1772

Obverse

DAVID GARRICK / L · PINGO · F ·, draped (togate) bust of David Garrick, bare head right, with hair tied in a fillet at the back

Reverse

HE UNITED ALL YOUR POWERS / MDCCLXXII, three Muses standing; with sword, cithara, and masks of tragicomedy

British laudatory medal - David Garrick (HCR102402)

Period

Modern

Person

David Garrick, L. Pingo

Dating

1772

Obverse

DAVID GARRICK / L · PINGO · F ·, draped (togate) bust of David Garrick, bare head right, with hair tied in a fillet at the back

Reverse

HE UNITED ALL YOUR POWERS / MDCCLXXII, three Muses standing; with sword, cithara, and masks of tragicomedy

British evasion token (HCR95694)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1773-1790

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE, bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

* NORTH * * WALES *, crowned harp

British comemmorative medal - The Honourable Order of Shakespearians instituted (HCR95894)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J. Kirk

Dating

1777

Obverse

WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN / KIRK · F ·, draped bust of William Shakespeare bare head left

Reverse

THE / HONᴮᴸᴱ / ORDER / OF / SHAKESPEAREIANS / INSTITUTTED / IULY 11 / ANNO / 1777, inscription within a rim of beads

British comemmorative medal - The Honourable Order of Shakespearians instituted (HCR95895)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J. Kirk

Dating

1777

Obverse

WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN / KIRK · F ·, draped bust of William Shakespeare bare head left

Reverse

THE / HONᴮᴸᴱ / ORDER / OF / SHAKESPEAREIANS / INSTITUTTED / IULY 11 / ANNO / 1777, inscription within a rim of beads

British token (HCR95697)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1790

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE, bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

HALFPENNY / 1790, Female personification of Commerce, seated left holding auger and cog wheel, denomination above, date in exergue

British token (HCR95700)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1791

Obverse

WARWICKSHIRE ., bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

HALFPENNY . / 1791, Female personification of Plenty (Ceres), seated on bale, left; holding the cornucopia; behind, masted ship; date in exergue

British token (HCR95696)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1792

Obverse

WARWICKSHIRE, bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

HALFPENNY / 1792, Vulcan at the forge, smithing; masted ship in background

British token (HCR95698)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1792

Obverse

WARWICKSHIRE, bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

HALFPENNY / 1792, Vulcan at the forge, smithing; masted ship in background

British token (HCR95699)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1792

Obverse

LONDON & MIDDLESEX ., bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

HALFPENNY . / 1792, Female personification of Plenty (Ceres), seated on bale, left; holding the cornucopia; behind, masted ship; date in exergue

British token (HCR95695)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1796

Obverse

STRATFORD PROMISSORY HALFPENNY, bust, left, of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait

Reverse

LITTLE TURNSTILE HALFPENNY / IN / 17 96, Two boys at a turnstile. Two lines of inscription directly underneath - the bottom one of which is a date split into two halves by the stile

British commemorative medal - birthday of John Philip Kemble (HCR95831)

Period

Modern

Person

J. Hancock, John Philip Kemble

Dating

1798

Obverse

IOHANNES PHILIPPUS KEMBLE, Draped (togate) bust of John Kemble facing, bare head turned to left

Reverse

TRAGŒDUS / ANGLICUS / AET . XLI. / MDCCXCVIII, Inscription within open wreath, masks of tragicomedy below

British commemorative medal (HCR95899)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J. Hancock

Dating

1800

Obverse

I · G · W · SHAKE SPEARE HANCOCK AGED7 Y'S, bust of William Shakespeare, left, wigged

Reverse

THIS IS / MY WORK / IOHN / GREGORY / HANCOCK / AGED 7 YEARS / 1800 / INDUSTRY / PRODUCETH / WEALTH, inscription in, and above, exergue

British commemorative medal - National Edition of Shakespeare's works published (HCR95900)

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