Five bronze medals in glass case
Date: 1889
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: numismatics
Object type: medals
Material: metal - bronze
Technique: cast, assembled
Description: 'Two medals: "Art Union Jubilee", obv. "Queens Head", rev. "Art saileth though life faileth". Dies cut to represent the old style of cast medals'. No maker specified (ACES 1889 exhibition catalogue).
Notes: Queen's Jubilee by Gilbert and Augustus Harris, Esq. (nos 116a and b, also on this database) may also be part of same exhibit
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
Citing this record
'Five bronze medals in glass case', 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=msib2_1210861350, accessed 19 Apr 2019]
