GREAT BRITAIN 52mm AE gilded medal 1798 A.D. 41st birthday of prominent actor John Philip Kemble - by John Hancock EF / EF+ cleaned surfaces

Obverse: IOHANNUS PHILLIPUS KEMBLE; engraver's name and firm below; I G HANCOCK SCULPR AD VIVUM

Reverse: An open wreath with an inscription inside; TRAGOEDDUS ANGLICUS AET . XLI MDCCXCVIII in four lines ("The English tragedian aged 41, 1798")

Private purchase from Christopher Eimer, February 2012

Kemble was a prominent actor playing over 120 characters, many of them Shakespearian. When the theater at Covent Garden burned down in 1808 he was the manager. After it was rebuilt, he raised the admission price resulting in demonstrations from unhappy patrons (source: Davissons)

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