IDENTIFIERS
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id:	156603
accession number:	CM.89-2005

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 30 June 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The Royal Academy of Music began as a London boarding school specialising in musical tuition and was founded in 1822. In 1830 it was awarded a charter by King George IV and became the Royal Academy of Music as it now exists. From the Academy's inception medals were awarded to students for good conduct, and the design of this medal was entrusted to William Wyon of the Royal Academy. Its depiction of Apollo is modelled on the Apollo Belvedere statue at Rome. The Academy stopped awarding the medals in the 1940s, however, as they had become too expensive to produce. This piece is a bronze specimen from the workshop of the designer, which was passed on to become part of the collection of his descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon, as part of which it has come to the Museum. As it bears the Academy's royal title it must, despite the signed date, be an update of the original medal from 1830 or shortly thereafter.
title:	Academy Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist's descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Wyon Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156603





CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1830

CREATORS
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maker: Wyon, William
maker: Royal Academy of Music


CITATIONS
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Royal Academy of Music
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