medal
- Museum number
- M.5417
- Description
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Bronze medal. (whole)
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Bare head of William Pitt, left. (obverse)
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Peace and Victory flying right, crowning Britannia who protects Commerce and Europe; Discord lies at her feet. In exergue: A rose, thistle and shamrock united by a single stem. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 54.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Brown 1980 states:
The bust on the obverse of this medal was taken from a bust of Pitt by Nollekens. Graham Pollard has drawn the author's attention to the fact that the bust of Pitt by Nollekens was quite the most widely disseminated of the portraits of Pitt. J. T. Smith in his 'Nollekens and his Times', 1828, vol. II, p. 43, notes that seventy-four marble replicas and six hundred plaster casts of the bust were produced. The bust is illustrated in the book by Margaret Whinney, 'Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830', Harmondsworth, 1964. See also note Brown 1 p171.703.
Bibliography: Hocking, W. J. 'Catalogue of the coins, tokens, medals, dies and seals in the museum of the Royal Mint', Vol. II, London, 1910, 247/12.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Liverpool Pitt Club and the Peace of Paris, 1814
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.5417
- C&M catalogue number
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MB3 (Brown 1) (200) (837)
