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Great Britain. Art Union of London CU Laudatory Medal of John Flaxman. By Henry Weigall, 1854. Bare-headed and draped bust to left; FLAXMAN downwards behind, HENRY WEIGALL SC: below / Depiction of Flaxman's bas-relief 'Mercury and Pandora': Mercury, wearing winged petasos and sandals, flying to left carrying seated Pandora, who's drapery swirls behind her; ancient cityscape on the horizon below, H. WEIGALL - FECIT across lower fields. Edge inscribed ART UNION OF LONDON 1854. Beaulah 6; BHM 2530; Eimer 1479. 86.20g, 55mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine; attractive patina. Scarce.
From the collection of the late Eduard Winkler.
John Flaxman (1755-1826) was a designer and sculptor who, having worked for Josiah Wedgwood, became the first professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy. The bas-relief on which this reverse is based was designed as one of a series to illustrate Hesiod's 'Works and Days', but was the only one ever to be made; a cast of the 3 ft. roundel can be seen at Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
Good Extremely Fine; attractive patina. Scarce.
From the collection of the late Eduard Winkler.
John Flaxman (1755-1826) was a designer and sculptor who, having worked for Josiah Wedgwood, became the first professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy. The bas-relief on which this reverse is based was designed as one of a series to illustrate Hesiod's 'Works and Days', but was the only one ever to be made; a cast of the 3 ft. roundel can be seen at Castle Howard in Yorkshire.