medal
- Museum number
- 2020,4030.1
- Title
- Object: Local Prize for Students in Art
- Description
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Cast bronze uniface medal. (whole)
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Three figures representing the sister arts in an embrace.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 157 millimetres
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Weight: 368.14 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Alfred Stevens' rejected entry to a Local Art Prize Medal competition held by the Department of Science and Art in 1856.
Philip Attwood, 'An Alfred Stevens medal for the British Museum', The Medal, 78 (2021), pp.20-26.
Philip Attwood 'The Medals of Alfred Stevens' in Jones, Mark (ed), Designs on Posterity (Fidem, 1992), pp.155-176.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2020
- Acquisition notes
- For full details of ownership see Attwood, 2021.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 2020,4030.1
