Queen Victoria: Visit to Birmingham
Medal
1858 (made)
1858 (made)
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This medal commemorates the visit of Queen Victoria to Birmingham and is made by the medallist Jonathan Moore in 1858.
Aston Hall once belonged to the Holtes, a royalist family, and Charles I had rested there in 1642. The Corporation of Birmingham desired to buy the park and hall but the price of £ 40,000 was too large for their means. Local working men and their employers, with other wealthy assistance raised the necessary money for the purchase. The park was used for a playground and the hall for exhibition purposes.
Joseph Moore (1817-1901) was a British engraver and medallist who already at ten years of age convinced his parents to let him earn his own living and entered the office of a then well-known silversmith.
Aston Hall once belonged to the Holtes, a royalist family, and Charles I had rested there in 1642. The Corporation of Birmingham desired to buy the park and hall but the price of £ 40,000 was too large for their means. Local working men and their employers, with other wealthy assistance raised the necessary money for the purchase. The park was used for a playground and the hall for exhibition purposes.
Joseph Moore (1817-1901) was a British engraver and medallist who already at ten years of age convinced his parents to let him earn his own living and entered the office of a then well-known silversmith.
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| Materials and Techniques | Zinc |
| Brief Description | Medal, commemorating the visit of Queen Victoria to Birmingham,by Jonathan Moore, Britain, 1858 |
| Physical Description | Medal depicts on the obverse the diademed head of Queen Victoria on a medallion within a closed wreath. On the reverse there is a view of the main front of Aston Hall. |
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| Historical context | Aston Hall once belonged to the Holtes, a royalist family, and Charles I had rested there in 1642. The Corporation of Birmingham desired to buy the park and hall but the price of £ 40,000 was too large for their means. Local working men and their employers, with other wealthy assistance raised the necessary money for the purchase. The park was used for a playground and the hall for exhibition purposes. |
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| Summary | This medal commemorates the visit of Queen Victoria to Birmingham and is made by the medallist Jonathan Moore in 1858. Aston Hall once belonged to the Holtes, a royalist family, and Charles I had rested there in 1642. The Corporation of Birmingham desired to buy the park and hall but the price of £ 40,000 was too large for their means. Local working men and their employers, with other wealthy assistance raised the necessary money for the purchase. The park was used for a playground and the hall for exhibition purposes. Joseph Moore (1817-1901) was a British engraver and medallist who already at ten years of age convinced his parents to let him earn his own living and entered the office of a then well-known silversmith. |
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| Accession Number | 6043-1858 |
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| record created | June 18, 2009 |
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