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			Creator		Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795
			Title		[Sydney Cove medallion], 1789 (original issue) / Josiah Wedgwood
			Level of Description		Collection
			Date of Work		1789
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		P*68
			Physical Description		Objects : 1 clay medallion, brown in colour, stored in red-brown square shaped box. ; 6.7 cm. medallion (max. diam.) ; 8.6 cm. box (max. diam.) - Weight: 17.55 grams
			Contents		Sydney Cove medallion titled: `Hope encouraging Art and Labour, under the influence of Peace, to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to an infant settlement'. Obverse: Bas-relief design featuring three women and a man in classical dress, personifying Hope, addressing Peace, Art, and Labour, between images of a sailing ship (on the left), houses and a windmill on a hill (on the right), and a basket of fruit (centre foreground) that denotes plenty. Reverse: Impressed `Made by Iosiah Wedgwood of Clay from Sydney Cove'.
			Source		Presented by Sir Richard Tangye, 1886


					Access only by appointment with Pictures staff
			Signatures / Inscriptions		Place and date of manufacture in raised (sprigged) text beneath image on obverse: `Etruria / 1789' Impressed text on reverse: `Made By / Iosiah Wedgwood / of Clay / From / Sydney Cove'
			General Note		The medallion commemorates the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788. On 16 November 1788 in Sydney Cove, Governor Arthur Phillip sent Sir Joseph Banks a box containing red ochre, and also white clay `with wch the Natives mark themselves, it is found in great plenty, a few feet below the surface ... the people use it to cover their Houses.' A second box was described as containing sand `found in sinking a well' which Phillip thought `has Black lead in it.' (Sir Joseph Banks Electronic Archive, Series 37.08) Banks sent the clays to his friend Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) who used them to issue a medallion, now known as the Sydney Cove Medallion, commemorating the settlement at Sydney. Modelled by William Hackwood (fl. 1780-d. 1836) after a design by Henry Webber (1754-1826) in 1789, it shows `Hope encouraging Art and Labour under the influence of Peace, to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to an infant colony'. A number of Sydney Cove medallions and a cup were sent to Phillip at Sydney Cove, and on 26 July 1790 he wrote to Banks saying: `Wedgwood has showed the world that our Welch [New South Welsh] Clay is capable of receiving an Eligant commission, & I return thanks for the Cup & Medallions'. (Sir Joseph Banks Electronic Archive, Series 37.12) The medallions were produced in three distinct colours: pale cream, brown and black depending on which clay was used. It is not known how many medallions were produced, but the number is likely to be small, nor is there any record of how many were sent to Phillip. The word `Etruria', which appears on the obverse of the medallion, was the name Wedgwood gave to his new factory in 1769, after the region in Italy. Eleven medallions are known to have survived; five are held in the Mitchell Library: P66 ; P67 ; P*68 ; PM 132 ; PM 133. No cups are known to have survived. -- Curator's Notes, Mitchell Library, 2005. Notes on the Wedgwood Medallions, compiled by the Mitchell Library, are located at Aw 127. This item has been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection, 2005.
			Author/Artist		Hackwood, William, fl. 1780-d.1836 Webber, Henry, 1754-1826
			Name		Sydney Cove medallion (pottery)
			Topic		commemorative ware medallions pottery
			Place		Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
			Exhibited in		Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - Apr 2006 - Mar 2007 ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - March 2010 Pieces of Wedgwood
			Digital order no.		Album ID : 825693