Joseph Davis
Died 1857 (Circa)
Active: 1825 - 1857
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Die-sinker
Worked in Birmingham
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume I, 1902 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a 'Birmingham Die-sinker of the second quarter of the ninteenth century' who died in c. 1857. Forrer lists a number of medals that were 'issued' by the artist between 1831 and 1852, including 'Return of Thomas Attwood to Birmingham from London' (1832), 'Thomas Clarkson' (undated but illustrated) and 'Anniversary of the Birmingham Free Grammer School' (1852). Forrer notes that early in the century Davis worked as a gilt toy manufacturer in Great Charles Street, Birmingham, and ran a Die-engravers from 1828. He was well known for his Reform and Anti-slavery Medals and made a set of English Cathederal Medals. Forrer notes that the artist is described in Franks and Gueber's, 'Medallic Illustrations of British History' (no dates given) as 'not a Die-engraver himself, but merely struck medals from dies cut for him'. See Forrer, vol. 1, (1902), p. 361.
Citing this record
'Joseph Davis', 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/person.php?id=msib4_1238418030, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
