Coins/Medallions: M0105

Title

Garrick "Shakespeare Jubilee" medallion

Technique

Mixed media

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Date

1769

Dimensions

Height: 6.5cm
Width: 6.5cm
Depth: 1.8cm

Other materials

Silver medallion with coloured ribbon in presentation box of Mulberry Wood

Inscription/signature

"The lid of the Box is formed of the Mulberry Tree Planted by Shakespeare and found in the possession of Mrs Garrick by Thos. Rackett." (inscr. on label on underside of lid); "WE SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN." (on medallion); "JUBILEE AT STRATFORD IN HONOUR AND TO THE MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE SEPTR. 1769 D.G STEWARD" (inscr. on verso)

Provenance

Presented to the Garrick Club in the memory of J.C. Trewin by his widow, 1990

Other number

Gift 938

Exhibition history

29 July-31 December 2016, The Weird and the Wonderful:Entertaining Georgian Polite Society, Fairfax House, York