
Queen Victoria: Visit to Birmingham
- Object:
Medal
- Place of origin:
Great Britain (made)
- Date:
1858 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Moore, Joseph, born 1817 - died 1901 (medallist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Zinc
- Museum number:
6043-1858
- Gallery location:
In Storage
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.