IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	141258
accession number:	CM.1164-2009

DATE AUDIT
----------
created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: The island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was first taken over from its inhabitants by the Portuguese in 1505; the Dutch replaced them during the seventeenth century. In a campaign from 1795 to 1796 the British East India Company ousted Dutch rule and took the island over.
This medal was issued by the Company to a force of 120 Indian gunners from the Bengal Artillery who served in the campaign. It is unnamed, and the recipient's identity unknown. Lester Watson bought it from the dealer Gifford in 1927.
title:	Capture of Ceylon Medal

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Gifford 1927


LICENSING
---------
text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
---------
instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
----------
url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141258





TECHNIQUES
----------
struck

CATEGORIES
------
category: medal

DATING
------
creation date:	1796 - 1796
creation date earliest:	1796
creation date latest:	1796

CREATORS
--------
maker: Calcutta
maker: East India Company
maker: George III (1760-1820)

DIMENSIONS
----------
dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 50.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 48.32



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
-------------------
title:	Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals
CITATIONS
--------
British Battles and Medals 7th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
---
IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 199 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 199 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 199 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_281_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 199 pixels


surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 232 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 232 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 232 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0047_282_29.jpg
height: 365 pixels
width: 232 pixels