IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156522 accession number: CM.2-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 2 January 2013 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Miss Sophia Beanland, headmistress of Brisbane Girls' Grammar School from 1882-1889, in 1915 established from retirement a silver medal, to be awarded annually for 'excellence of design and workmanship in home needlework' (quoted from the School website). The medal, which appears to bear the bust of her mother, was designed by Allan Wyon and this copy, in white metal, appears to have been one of his specimens; the Museum also has a similar piece in bronze. title: Prize for Excellence in Needlework NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist 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/156522 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1915 - 1915 creation date earliest: 1915 creation date latest: 1915 CREATORS -------- maker: Wyon, Allan Gairdner maker: Brisbane Girls' Grammar School maker: Beanland, Esther IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_2_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 356 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_2_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 356 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_2_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 356 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_2_2005_281_29.jpg height: 256 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_2_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_2_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_2_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_2_2005_282_29.jpg height: 257 pixels width: 250 pixels