Great Exhibition of 1851 - Prize Medal (£100) - M. Hippolyte Bonnardel, 1850. 'Mercury holding a female figure by the hand (intended to represent Industry apparently, from the anvil, locomotive, &c., near her), In front of a thick-set figure of Britannia standing on a slightly raised platform, with both hands extended, holding wreaths: flags of different nations make up the : "Est etiam in magno quaedam respublica mundo".' .From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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