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1440 William Cheselden (1688-1751), Surgeon and Anatomist, Bronze Medal, 1829, by W Wyon, bust of Cheselden right, rev MORS VIVIS SALVS, in exergue St Thomas’s Hospital, male figure on operating table, 71mm (BHM 1339). Cabinet friction to highest points, extremely fine, scarce. £80-120 The medal is the Cheselden prize of St Thomas’s Hospital, founded in 1829 by George Vaughan
1441 The “Torso Belvedere”, a Lead ‘Squeeze’, by William Wyon, of the reverse design of the Royal Academy prize medal of 1830, without legend, 51mm (cf BHM 1466). Very fine. £40-60 The torso named after the Belvedere Gallery in the Vatican where it is displayed. A Roman copy from a Greek original, the torso was much admired by Michelangelo.
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1442 William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), statesman, large cast Portrait Medal, 1882, by Alphonse Legros, bust three-quarters right, with high collar, W E GLADSTONE 1882, on band around, rev FIDE ET VIRTUTE, 112mm (Att 6, five specimens listed; BHM 3117). Much as made, very fine. £120-150