39mm. Silver. By Loos.
Obverse with bust of Elizabeth of York facing left wearing embroidered dress, headdress and ornate necklace, reverse with the two roses of York and Lancaster, entwined.
Extremely Fine and wonderfully toned.
This medal was engraved under the direction of Loos, the Prussian medallist, at the expense of Mr. Thane, who considered that the legal representative of the House of York was entitled to a place by the side of her husband in the series of English sovereigns. He supplied the artist with the print, by Vertue, of the Princess and her husband, taken from the picture at Kensington, painted by Van Leemput, after the original by Holbein, which was destroyed in the fire at Whitehall in 1697. The roses represent the Houses of York and Lancaster, from whose union have issued the succeeding sovereigns of Great Britain.