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[Sydney Cove medallion], 1789 (original issue) / Josiah Wedgwood
[Sydney Cove medallion], 1789 (original issue) / Josiah Wedgwood
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Date
1789
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SAFE/PM 132
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Physical Description
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Objects - 6.7 cm. (max. diam.) - Weight: 19.37 grams. This medallion has significant bubbling on front and back, and obvious warping. Number on reverse: L2848/2, being Powerhouse Museum loan number. - 1 clay medallion, black in colour
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Sydney Cove medallion titled: `Hope encouraging Art and Labour, under the influence of Peace, to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to an infant settlement'.
Obverse: Bas-relief design featuring three women and a man in classical dress, personifying Hope, addressing Peace, Art, and Labour, between images of a sailing...
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[Sydney Cove medallion], 1789 (original issue) / Josiah Wedgwood
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Notes
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Digital order no:Album ID : 874445...
Signature / Inscriptions
Place and date of manufacture in raised (sprigged) text beneath image on obverse: `Etruria / 1789'
Impressed text on reverse: `Made By / Iosiah Wedgwood / of Clay / From / Sydney Cove'
Contextual Information
Source
Bequest of L. Richard Smith, 2003
Acquired by Smith in 1983 from Geoffrey Godden; acquired from the collection of Godden's father who had purchased it from another, unrecorded dealer in 1959. -- L. Richard Smith, `Fingerprinting the Sydney Cove Medallion', in The Australian Wedgwood Society of New South Wales Review, no. 1, 2000 p. 5
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Call Numbers
SAFE/PM 132
Record Identifier
nQR2pjd1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQR2pjd1
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446729
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