Royal Academy Prize Medal,
Royal Academy Prize Medal, , silver prize, 1808, by T. Pingo, laureate bust of George III right within border of leaves and pellets, GEORGIUS III D. G. MAGN. BRIT. FR. ET. HIB. REX, rev. a representation of the Torso Belvedere by Cipriani within a beaded circle, STUDY/ R. AC. INSTITUTED/ 1768, edge engraved, Francis Edwards For The Best Drawing In Architecture 1808, 55 mm (BHM 133), Slightly rubbed on the high pointswith minor surface marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine and extremely rare. £Sold
The Royal Academy was founded in London in 1768 under the patronage of George III.
Francis Edwards (1784-1857),architect of the Georgian and early Victorian periods, who worked extensively in the London area.
Sir John Soane's foremost pupil, Edwards joined Soane's office at Lincoln's Inn Fields as an improver in 1806 and was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools two years later, the date of this medal.
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