Arts & Crafts, including the Aesthetic Movement - 22 Jun 2011
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'George Frederick Watts (1871-1959)' a uniface cast bronze portrait medallion, by Theodore Spicer Simpson, dated 1904, facing right with head slightly turned, the rim inscribed and dated, cast artists signature 12cm. diam.
This medal is extremely rare, Spicer Simpson also made an undated and slightly less rare medal which is illustrated in his posthumously published A Collection of Characters - Reminiscences of Theodore Spicer-Simpson.
Literature
International Exhibition of Contemporary Medals, 1910 American Numismatic Society, New York, catalogue page 319-322 for an example illustrated