3-039-160 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Medal for the Sultan's visit to London, 1871. 'The visit of the Sultan of Turkey to the city of London, in the summer of 1867, has been ordered to be commemorated by means of a medal, designed and executed by Messrs. Wyon Brothers, of Langham-place. at the cost of the City Corporation. It presents on one side the portrait of his Imperial Majesty Abdul Aziz, from a photograph taken while he was in London; but Mr. Joseph Wyon, in modelling the portrait, was assisted by the advice of his Excellency Musurus Pacha, the Ambassador of Turkey here. The reverse side of the medal shows a group representing the festive welcome given to Turkey by the city of London. The building in the rear is the mosque of Sultan Achmet, at Constantinople. The Sultan has conferred upon Mr. Joseph Wyon the order of the Medjidieh, of the fourth class, as a token of his approval of this work of art'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.