fme_1128148 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille, Exposition international de Londres, Crystal Palace, Vue Sud
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Type : Médaille, Exposition international de Londres, Crystal Palace, Vue Sud
Date: 1862
Mint name / Town : Grande Bretagne, Londres
Metal : tin
Diameter : 74 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DOWLER George - Birmingham
Weight : 116,65 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des marques d’usure et quelques rayures. Argenture encore bien visible. Quelques taches noires au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Personnification de la Grande Bretagne rendant hommage à Apollon, à ses cotés, l’allégorie de la fortune et trois autres figures, des allégories du commerce et de l’industrie. Au sol on retrouve des symboles des arts, de l’architecture, de l’agriculture et de l’industrie. Signé : DOWLER BIRM.
Reverse
Reverse legend : THE BUILDING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION / (SOUTH FRONT VIEW) / OPENED MAY 1ST / 1862 // COVER A SPACE OF 26 ACRES, LENGTH 1200FT / WIDTH 700FT, HEIGHT 100FT, NAVE 85FT WIDE / THE BUILDING IS OF BRICK, THE DOMES / ARE OF IRON AND GLASS, HEIGHT 250FT / AND 160FT DIAM : ATBASE / (THE LARGEST DOMES EVER ERECTED) / COST £ 300,000 .
Reverse description : Façade sud du bâtiment recevant l’exposition internationale de 1862. Signé : G. DOWLER BIRM.
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA
(20/06/1837-22/01/1901)
Victoria (1819-1901) was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, and granddaughter of George III. She succeeded her uncle Guillaume IV in 1837 and married her cousin Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg in 1840, against her mother's advice. She had nine children by him but became a widow in 1861. While respecting the rules of the parliamentary system, she tried to impose her views in the field of foreign affairs. Her favourite, Disraeli, had her given the title of Empress of India in 1876. Respected and loved, active and authoritarian, Victoria appeared in her time as the symbol of imperialist England. His reign marks the height of British power.
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