Medal — Medal (Prize medal for the Slade School of Art), England, 1888
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1888
Medal in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number 316-1903), made in England, dated 1888, attributed to Vereker Hamilton, Lilian. The museum's brief description reads: Medal, bronze, design of a prize medal for the Slade School of Arts, by Lilian Vereker Hamilton, England, 1888. Museum description: A winged and draped female figure, holding a wreath of laurel. Below is the inscription .FORTES.FORTVNA.JVVAT. The museum records it as Bronze cast in relief, measuring Diameter 9.21 cm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Historical context
This bronze medal of 1888 depicts a winged and draped female figure, holding a laurel wreath , and is an example of the prize medal presented by the Slade School of Art, University College London. Lilian Vereker Hamilton was born Lilian Swainson in 1865. She studied at the Slade School of Arts and was the wife of the painter Vereker M. Hamilton.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Diameter 9.21 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Bronze cast in relief
- Maker recorded
- Vereker Hamilton, Lilian
- Place recorded
- England
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- 'FORTES.FORTVNA.JVVAT'
Identification
- Museum object name
- Medal
- Museum object number
- 316-1903
- Museum system number
- O172144
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
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