IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 29438 accession number: M.18-1982 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 27 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Portrait medallion. Plaster, cast. Tinted to resemble Wedgwood's pale blue jasper with white relief of Dr. Erasmus Darwin in profile to left. Mounted on gilt board inscribed in black 'ERASMUS DARWIN. M.D./Poet and Botanist./Born 1731.Died 1802/Author of/'The Botanic Garden'' ''The Loves of the Plants.''/''Zoonomania'' ''The Temple of Nature'' &c. &c.'. In rectangular ebonized, partly gilt frame. On the back two labels, both inscribed in faded black ink: (1) 'Presented/to the /Royal Botanic Society/of London/by/G.G. Hardingham. F.R.B.S./1881.': (2) A four line extract from 'Darwin (E) ''Temple of Nature'' Canto I.223.' and 'From lines addressed by D. Bilsborrow to Dr. Darwin.'. title: medallion NOTES ----- type: history note value: Formerly Wellcome Institute No. A 112466. Purchased 'Protheroe & Morris, 2/8 & 9/xii/31 (Mr Stow Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park)' LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Wellcome Trustees in accordance with the order of Mr Justice Foster STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29438 PEOPLE ------------------- Darwin, Erasmus TECHNIQUES ---------- plaster, cast, tinted to resemble pale blue jasper, mounted on gilt board casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture category: medals DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown