3-021-018 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"The Massacre Of The Innocents" (Royal Academy Gold Medal, Sculpture), By Mr. Henry Wiles, 1868. 'Our readers are probably aware that, besides the annual prizes of the Royal Academy for drawings and models from the life, copies of antique works, and studies in perspective, every alternate year the Council of the Royal Academy offer a handsome gold medal, and a premium of £60, for each of the best original works in painting and sculpture, in illustration of subjects given out some months before the distribution; and also a gold medal for the best architectural design, and a travelling studentship for one year of £100...The subject for the sculpture competition was "The Massacre of the Innocents," and the prize was awarded to Mr. Henry Wiles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.