IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 200480 accession number: CM.807-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 9 February 2015 updated: Friday 28 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Uniface medal of Gian Gastone de� Medici (1671-1737), 1685. title: Italy 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/200480 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1685 - 1685 creation date earliest: 1685 creation date latest: 1685 CREATORS -------- maker: Soldani-Benzi, Massimiliano maker: Florence IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/large_CM_807_2009_281_29.jpg height: 1021 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/mid_CM_807_2009_281_29.jpg height: 498 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/CM_807_2009_281_29.JPG height: 2754 pixels width: 2763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/preview_CM_807_2009_281_29.jpg height: 249 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/large_CM_807_2009_282_29.jpg height: 1028 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/mid_CM_807_2009_282_29.jpg height: 502 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/CM_807_2009_282_29.JPG height: 2808 pixels width: 2796 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm54/preview_CM_807_2009_282_29.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels