“Art Union Jubilee Medal [Queen Victoria]” by Sir Alfred Gilbert

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Art Union Jubilee Medal [Queen Victoria]

Sir Alfred Gilbert, R. A. (1854-1934)

1887

Bronze

Diameter: 2 1/2 inches (6.4 cm)

This was the last Art Union medal to be commissioned and commemorates the Jubilee of the Art Union as well as that of Queen Victoria. Thirty medals in silver and forty in bronze were allotted as prizes in the Art Union lottery in both 1887 and 1888.

Queen Victoria

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Bibliography

Dorment, Richard. Victorian High Renaissance. Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978. No. 29.

Alfred Gilbert. Exhibition catalogue. London: Royal Academy, 1986. Nos. 39 & 40.

Gibson to Gilbert: British Sculpture 1840-1914. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Fine Art Society, 1992. No. 26.

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