3-047-078 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Medals for the Vienna Exhibition: for Merit, 1872. One of several medals designed by the sculptor J. Tautenhayn, to be given to exhibitors at '...the Great Exhibition of Arts and Industry to be held at Vienna next year,...by the Austrian Imperial Commission. On the reverse sides are the different groups of allegorical figures, or impersonations, which are conceived to patronise the works of skill respectively approved in distributing the several medals to each class of exhibitors. [This example,] granted for an honorary distinction, is inscribed "Dem Verdienste" (For Merit)...The inscription, "Welt-Aussteilung, 1873, Wien" (Vienna World - Exhibition, 1873), is repeated in each instance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.