Plaster Original for Reverse of Dr Robert Campbell Medal
Created by Sophia Rosamond Praeger
Date: 1922
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: numismatics
Object type: medal
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Description: One side depicts profile portrait of Robert Campbell, FRCS, opposite side female figure seated on plinth holding a small child whose foot is being bandaged by a male physician.
Inscriptions
WHERE THERE IS LOVE OF MAN, THERE IS ALSO LOVE OF ART. MEMORIAL ORATOR [space for receiver\'s name]
Notes: Medal was comissioned by the Ulster Medical Society in 1922 as the 'Robert Campbell Memorial Prize for Oration'.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at 45th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1926
1926
Sources
Catalogue of The 45th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society in The Municipal Art Gallery, Botanic Gardens Park Belfast, 1926
1926
p. 21 (274)
Sophia Rosamond Praeger 1867-1954 Art, Literature, Science
2007
p. 41
Citing this record
'Plaster Original for Reverse of Dr Robert Campbell 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=msib3_1257693231, accessed 27 Feb 2021]
