Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt

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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt

by Edward (Edouard) Lanteri
bronze medallion, 1891
4 5/8 in. (117 mm) diameter
Purchased, 1979
Primary Collection
NPG 5273

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This posthumous uniface medal by Lanteri was a tribute to the sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm, whose studio he had joined on coming to England from Paris in 1872. Modelled shortly before Boehm's death in 1890, Lanteri has lightly sketched in a sculptor's mallet and laurels to the side of the head. He remained adverse to the mechanical aspect of the striking process; the bold handling and irregular circumference of this medallion is typical of his output. James Moore at the Thames Ditton foundry was responsible for casting the British Museum's example of this medal and may have cast this and other medals for Lanteri.

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The Irish Nationalist leader Charles Parnell is forced to resign after being named in the divorce proceedings brought by William O'Shea against his wife Kitty, who had been Parnell's mistress for a decade. The scandal severely damages the campaign for the Home Rule Bill, contributing greatly to its subsequent failure. Parnell's health also suffered; he contracted rheumatic fever and died a few months after resigning.

Art and science

Thomas Hardy's publishes Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a tragedy which explores the consequences of the young Tess's seduction by the wealthy Alec D'Urberville. In the novel, Hardy sets forward his major concerns about the individual's powerlessness before fate, whilst radically critiquing the hypocritical double standards of contemporary morals.

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The construction of Trans-Siberian railway, the longest single rail system in Russia, begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock. Running between Moscow and Vladivostock, work was completed in 1917.
The German aviation pioneer Otto Lilenthal takes off in the first glider from a hill near Potsdam, the first of many guided flights and an important step in the development of aerial technology.

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