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Bancroft medal for the British Medical Association (now AMA), Queensland Branch 1927-28

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Accession No.
2022.061
Date Created
1927-28
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
5.7cm (diam.)
Media Category
Sculpture
Secondary Media Category
metal
Medium
Bronze
Place Created
Brisbane
Credit Line
Gift of Emeritus Professor Christine Ryan (née Mayo) through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022

Daphne Mayo designed this medal for the former British Medical Association, Queensland. It honours the distinguished medical scientist Dr Joseph Bancroft (1836–94), whose portrait appears on the obverse and his microscope on the reverse. The medal is awarded on the occasion of the biennial Bancroft Oration, inaugurated in 1926 and continued by the AMA Queensland Branch.
 

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Daphne Mayo’s Susannah (detail) 1946, cast 1995 photographed for ‘Let There Be Sculpture’, QAG, January 2012 / © Surf Lifesaving Foundation and The United Church in Australia Property Trust (Q.) / Photograph: R Fulton, QAGOMA

‘Daphne Mayo: Let There Be Sculpture’

Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

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