Five Pound Piece: Victoria (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (reverse)
after Benedetto Pistrucci (Italian, 1784–1855)
designed by Thomas Brock (British, 1847–1922)
1893
- Medium
- gold
- Classification
- Coins
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- England, Victoria, 1837-1901
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
After the minor storm of dislike which blew up over the 1887 Jubilee design, Thomas Brock, R.A., designed a new obverse, usually known as the "old head" type.
