Crystal Palace
Date: 1851
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: numismatics
Object type: medal
Material: metal
Technique: struck
Description: A view of the building that housed the Great Exhibition known as the 'Crystal Palace' in the obverse and a portrait of Prince Albert in profile on the reverse. The medal was struck in a metal alloy.
Notes: The Crystal Palace was a huge glass and iron structure erected in Hyde Park in London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition attracted over six million visitors and numerous firms capitalised on its success by issuing cheap, mass-produced medals as souvenirs.
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Owned by Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum number: A.40-1978. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111683/medal-crystal-palace/ (accessed 31 August 2010)
Struck by Allen and Moore
1851
Sources
V&A Search the collections
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111683/medal-crystal-palace/ (accessed 31 August 2010)
Citing this record
'Crystal Palace', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1283292483, accessed 22 Jan 2021]
