medal
- Museum number
- M.5405
- Description
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Pewter medal. (whole)
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Head of the Duke of Wellington bare head, left. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1813
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 42.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Brown 1980 states:
Although specifically concerned with the centenary of the town of Kinston-upon-Hull in Yorkshire, the artist perhaps felt that the occasion was sufficiently important to be linked with the Allied victory at Leipzig which had caused Napoleon's withdrawal westwards towards France. In the last months of 1688, the town of Hull, together with its fort and garrison was in the hands of the Jacobites. The place was surprised and taken by the supporters of William of Orange who was then proclaimed King. The anniversary of this event (probably the 15th December) was proclaimed a holiday and was still kept as late as the latter half of the nineteenth century (See the 'Imperial Gazeteer', Blackie and Sons, 1856). From this it was evidently apposite to the engraver to link Europe's relief from tyranny with England's relief from the same condition in 1688. See also note to Brown 1 p185.768.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Kingston-Upon-Hull Jubilee, 1813
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.5405
- C&M catalogue number
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MB3 (Brown 1) (186) (775)