Baldwin & Sons
Auction 81 10 May 2013
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. BRITISH MEDALS. Sir Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), English Statesman, Silver Medal (1741), by Lorenz Natter, draped bust right in high relief, ROBERTUS WALPOLE ORD PERISCELIDIS EQVES, rev statue of Cicero, MTC [Marcus Tullius Cicero] below, REGIT DICTIS ANIMOS, 49.5mm (MI 562/193; Eimer 562). Extremely fine, toned and very rare.
Robert Walpole, Whig MP (1701-1742), advocated the Hanoverian succession, the first British Prime Minister (1721-1742). The portrait is after the 1726 marble bust by John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), at Houghton Hall, Walpole's country house, whilst the statue of Cicero was in the collection of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) at Holkham Hall
Estimate: £300-500
Robert Walpole, Whig MP (1701-1742), advocated the Hanoverian succession, the first British Prime Minister (1721-1742). The portrait is after the 1726 marble bust by John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), at Houghton Hall, Walpole's country house, whilst the statue of Cicero was in the collection of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) at Holkham Hall
Estimate: £300-500