1076353 | GREAT BRITAIN. John Flaxman. (Draftsman and Sculptor, 1755-1826). 1854 AE Medal. PCGS SP63. By Henry Weigall. Edge: ART-UNION OF LONDON. 1854. 56mm. 84.80gm. FLAXMAN. Bust, left; signed below / Mercury carrying Pandora aloft above a landscape. BHM 2530; Eimer 1479; Beaulah 6.

This medal is from a series commissioned by the Art Union of London, beginning in 1842 and depicts a rendering of an illustration by Flaxman for an edition of Hesiod’s Work and Days, titled ‘Mercury and Pandora’. .

Housed in an oversized holder.


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John Flaxman was the son of a maker of plaster casts and through his farther was introduced to a number of contemporary artist including George Romney and William Blake. He won Royal Academy prizes for his medallic work in his early teens, worked for the potter Josiah Wedgwood and began a good line in sculpting elaborate grave monuments. As a leading proponent of neoclassicism you can see his influence in the early work of the medallist and Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint, William Wyon, who was his pupil briefly. .