Cymmrodorion Medal
Created by Joseph Edwards
Date: 1870
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: numismatics
Object type: medal
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Description: On the obverse are figures of three women in low relief. On the reverse, within a wreath of flowers the sign of the Gorsedd appears below a star.
Inscriptions
The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. For promoting the love of literature, science and art in Wales
Location: obverse side
Technique: carved
Notes: The original design in plaster for the medal of the Cymmrodorion Society.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru National Museum of Wales Exhibition of Works by Certain Modern Artists of Welsh Birth or Extraction, 1913
5 December 1913 - 28 February 1914
lent by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
Citing this record
'Cymmrodorion Medal', 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=msib1_1203346419, accessed 28 Jan 2023]
