IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156600 accession number: CM.86-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The National Art Training School in South Kensington was the premier artistic school of Victorian England, although its teaching was criticised at the time for the lengths of time taken over small pieces. Nonetheless places were extremely difficult to attain and the prestige of a qualification from there considerable. The organisation now exists, under somewhat different principles, as the Royal College of Art. Whatever the ideals of the National Art Training School, particular success by them could earn its students prize medals, and this piece is a bronze specimen of one such medal by William Wyon. Its edge is marked "159" but there is no other indication of a recipient. It came to the Museum from the collection of Wyon's descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon, and so is likely to have remained in the designer's workshop to be passed on at his death. title: medals NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist's descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Wyon Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156600 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1878 - 1878 creation date earliest: 1878 creation date latest: 1878 CREATORS -------- maker: Victoria (1837-1901) maker: Wyon, William maker: National Art Training School IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_86_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_86_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_86_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_86_2005_281_29.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_86_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 355 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_86_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 355 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_86_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 355 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_86_2005_282_29.jpg height: 257 pixels width: 250 pixels