medal
- Museum number
- M.5652
- Description
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Bronze medal. (whole)
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Laureate, draped bust of Queen Caroline, head left, hair tied in chignon. (obverse)
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Bust of Count Bergami facing, bare head to right. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 40.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Brown 1980 states:
Count Bartolomeo Bergami entered Princess Caroline's service as courier in 1814, during her visit to Italy. Bergami is said to have been of an old family and to have served in the Italian campaigns of 1812-14. He soon rose in favour and was advanced to the rank of equerry and then to chamberlain. The Princess procured for him a Barony in Sicily, the Knighthood of Malta and decorated him with several other orders of knighthood. The number of favours which he received at her hands caused many reports much to the Princess's disadvantage and formed the grounds for a Bill of Divorce, which was abandoned at the third reading in November 1820. Bergami left the Queen's service in 1820 and returned to Italy; he died in 1841. See Grueber, 'English Personal Medals' Numismatic Chronicle, 1888, p. 66; see also note to No. 1026.
Bibliography: Grueber, H. A., English Personal Medals for 1760, 'Numismatic Chronicle', third series vol. VIII, 1888/66.
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.5652
- C&M catalogue number
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MB3 (Brown 1) (250) (1030)