Medal — Frederick, Prince of Wales, Dassier, Jacques-Antoine, London, ca. 1750

Medal — Frederick, Prince of Wales, Dassier, Jacques-Antoine, London, ca. 1750 is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated ca. 1750. The museum's brief description reads: Medal, bronze, Frederick Prince of Wales, by Jacques Antoine Dassier, England (London), ca.

1750. Museum description: The Swiss-born medallist Jacques Antoine Dassier (1715-1759) was a medallist and engraver. The eldest son of Jean [John] Dassier. He studied in Paris and Rome before working as assistant engraver at the Royal Mint in London from 1741 to 1745. He stayed in England till 1757. He later worked at Geneva and from 1756 at the St Petersburg Mint. Besides many individually commissioned medals, in the 1740s he produced a series of famous Englishmen, including Sir Hans Sloane (bronze, 1744; see Hawkins, Franks and Grueber, ii, no.

234), and contributed to his father's Roman series. With their subtly modelled drapery, his medals resemble, on a small scale, busts by the sculptor Roubiliac. Many also represent the same sitters. The legend in Latin, reads: ‘Frederick Prince of Wales’. The museum record gives material recorded as bronze; measurements Diameter 5.39 cm; place associated: London; maker recorded: Dassier, Jacques-Antoine. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.