2-913-697 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Beaufoy Shakspearian Medal, 1854. Medal with bust of William Shakespeare, awarded to '...the most successful competitor among the boys of Carpenter's or the London School, in the production of an essay on Shakespeare and the immortal productions of England's dramatic bard...The dyes [for the medal] were prepared by Mr Benjamin Wyon...On the obverse, the head of Shakespeare, side-faced to the left, from the bust on his monument at Stratford-upon-Avon...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.