Award - Cambridge University Browne Medal; 36mm
Features
| Location |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Award medals › Scholastic, academic and scientific awards |
| Year | 1775 |
| Composition | Gold |
| Weight | 24.85 g |
| Diameter | 36 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 582001 |
| References | BHM# 92 Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes). Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). Christopher Eimer; 1998. The Pingo Family: & medal making in 18th-century Britain. British Art Medal Society, London, United Kingdom. John Harvey Pinches; 1987. Medals by John Pinches: A catalogue of works struck by the company from 1840 to 1969. Heraldry Today, London, United Kingdom. |
Commemorative issue
Cambridge University
Obverse
Draped bust left
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ESSE ET VIDERI.
D. GVLIELMVS BROWNE, EQVES.
NAT. III NON. IAN. A. I. MDCXCII
Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon
Designer: Lewis Pingo
Reverse
Nearly nude figure of Apollo seated on a stool upon a dais. In left hand a lyre, extending right hand to place a wreath on the head of a kneeling student.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
SVNT SVA PRAEMIA LAVDI
ELECTVS COLL. MED
LOND PRAESES A S
MDCCLXV
Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon
Edge
Plain with inscription
Mint
John Pinches Medallist Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1840-1980)Comments
Engraved by Pingo. Struck by Wyon from circa 1850 and later by Pinches.
Awarded annually since circa 1775 for greek and latin epigrams. (Pinches)
The William Browne Prize for Classical Odes and Epigrams was established in the will of Sir William Browne, President of the Royal College of Physicians, upon his death in 1774. Medals of five-guinea weight were to be distributed to Cambridge undergraduates, with the first awarded in 1775.
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