IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 187747 accession number: CM.779-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 3 July 2012 updated: Friday 24 August 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- title: medals NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Graham Pollard Collection of Medals and Plaquettes, consisting of 276 medals and two plaquettes of the Renaissance and later. This was a selection made to complement the Fitzwilliam’s collection, chosen from a much larger number. His son, Lawrence Pollard, had already donated his papers, his slide collection and selected books and offprints. Graham Pollard (1929-2007) was the leading authority on Italian Renaissance Medals in the post-War period. His entire career was spent at the Fitzwilliam Museum rising from a Gallery Attendant in 1947 to become Keeper of Coins and Medals (1966-1988) and Deputy Director (1969-1988). He was a founding member and the first Chairman of the British Art Medal Society in 1982. His publications include a three-volume catalogue of the Renaissance Medals in the Bargello Museum, Florence (1984-5), and two-volume catalogue of the Renaissance Medals in the National Gallery Washington (2007). As a condition of the AIL allocation all items must be labelled ‘Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2009’. Lawrence Pollard has given permission for his father’s name to be associated with the collection. Note on Provenances: There are very few medals in the collection that retain any information about how or when they were acquired. A significant number of them belonged to a collection of medals bought by Mr Pollard in 1947 or 1948 from a closing-down sale of a Cambridge antique shop after the owner’s death. According to Mr Pollard, this group included the Borghese Borghesi medal (779). In other cases he bought pieces from coin and medal dealers or at auction, but no record of these transactions has been preserved. Mr Pollard reported that this was part of the collection he bought from a Cambridge antique shop’s closing-down sale in 1947/8. Exhibited at the Renaissance Siena: Art for a City exhibition at the National Gallery, 2007-8 (Catalogue 194, 45). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Graham Pollard Collection creditline: Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2009 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/187747 TECHNIQUES ---------- cast (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1479 - 1490 creation date earliest: 1479 creation date latest: 1490 CREATORS -------- maker: Francesco di Giorgio (1439-1501) maker: Sienna DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Weight units: g value: 112.32 CITATIONS -------- A corpus of Italian medals of the Renaissance before Cellini, 1: Text; British Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/CM_779_2009_281_29.jpg height: 753 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/mid_CM_779_2009_281_29.jpg height: 495 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/CM_779_2009_281_29.jpg height: 753 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/preview_CM_779_2009_281_29.jpg height: 248 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/CM_779_2009_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/mid_CM_779_2009_282_29.jpg height: 500 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/CM_779_2009_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm38/preview_CM_779_2009_282_29.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm58/CM_777_2009_2_201602_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 674 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm58/mid_CM_777_2009_2_201602_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm58/CM_777_2009_2_201602_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 674 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm58/preview_CM_777_2009_2_201602_kly25_dc2.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 250 pixels