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James Boswell – Obverse
James Boswell – Reverse

James Boswell

By: Ronald Searle, 2000
Medium: struck bronze
Size: 75mm
Cast by: Thomas Fattorini Ltd.
Issue: The Medal, no. 41 (2002)
Edition: 100

Category: Gallery Tag: searle
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Searle’s medal of James Boswell continues a literary theme that began with his medal of Edward Lear, modelled in 1975 and issued by the Monnaie de Paris, and has been apparent in two of the artist’s BAMS medals: those of Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys medals, which appeared in 1983 and 1984 respectively. On this witty new medal Boswell, the biographer of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson, is portrayed on one side, pen in hand, whilst on the other he chases after the great man, notebook in hand so as to catch the doctor’s bons mots. Like the earlier Dickens medal, the Boswell medal is being issued in two versions, both as a struck two-sided piece and as two large electroformed uniface works. The latter have been taken directly from the models produced by the artist in 1999, and their issue by the Society has been made possible by generous sponsorship from David Silich.

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