- Museum number
- G3,EM.10
- Description
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Silver medal. (whole)
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Bust of Anne, left, crowned, hair entwined with pearls, lovelock on the right shoulder, in embroidered gown with straps on the shoulder, collar, George, and star of the Garter; a bow of pearls with a brooch on the left shoulder fastens a mantle, which passes behind. (obverse)
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The British shield within the Garter, crowned, and between branches of palm and laurel, supported upon a pedestal marked with the double cypher of A R. On one side is the Lion with a shield bearing a rose and a thistle united, and on the other the Unicorn with the Union shield. All these are placed on a pedestal decorated with two sceptres in saltire, and from which are suspended the collar and George of the Garter. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1706
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 47.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 2, published in 1885, states:
Not uncommon.
There were two different dies used for the obverse of this medal; one has the shoulder-straps plain, the other decorated. The Act of Union between England and Scotland received the royal assent on the 6th March, 1707, and came into operation on the 1st May following. The Union is indicated on this medal by the English and Scottish arms being impaled in the first and fourth quarters, in the conjunction of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew upon one shield, and in the rose and thistle growing upon one stalk on the other.
See Thesaurus Numismatum Modernorum hujus Seculi, &c., Norinbergiæ, 680; Köhler, Johann David, ‘Historische Münz-Belustigung’, Nürnberg, 1729-1750, IX. 73.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018-2019, 5 Oct - 7 Apr, BM G69a, Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain
1996-1997 2 Oct-5 Jan, Leeds, City Art Gallery, David le Marchand 1674-1726 An Ingenious Man for carving in Ivory
1996 23 May-15 Sep, London, British Museum, David le Marchand 1674-1726 An Ingenious Man for carving in Ivory
1996 7 Mar-6 May, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, David le Marchand 1674-1726 An Ingenious Man for carving in Ivory
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Union of England and Scotland
- Acquisition date
- 1825
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- G3,EM.10
- C&M catalogue number
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MB2 (Medallic Illustrations 2) (295) (107)
