HUMPHRIES, G.C. [full name & dates unknown] artist, designer.
Loubat's only data on this artist was he died in London.
Humphries's designs of six battle scenes from Mexican
War incorporated as vignettes surrounding a central
view in highly detailed design. Medal has two artist's
signatures on each side!
[Cataloger's Note: I believe this was a British war
artist or newspaper artist who passed through New
York City after the Mexican War. Charles C. Wright
viewed Humphries' drawings and decided to
incorporate six of them into his reverse design of
the Scott Medal.]
M E D A L S
1849 Scott (Winfield) Six Battles Medallion (portrait by
Salathiel Ellis, rev designs by G.C. Humphries, both
sides engraved by Charles Cushing Wright) . . . Loubat 62,
Julian MI-26
Auctions:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . BMP 1:4248-4249; CAL 28:860
Collection: American Numismatic Society [>1] . 1995.51.9
Collection: Cornell Univ Johnson Art Gallery . . . . 406
Collection: Smithsonian National Numismatic. . . 336:25
L I S T M E D A L S
1849 Scott (Winfield) Six Battles Medallion [MI-26] List 424
Collection: Princeton Library Vermeule (NC2002-72) . 130
Exhibited: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (1991) . . . . . 130
C O L L E C T I O N S
C4 {1912} Comparette 25, p 336.
B I O G R A P H I C A L R E F E R E N C E S
D15 {1957} Groce and Wallace p 334.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 2:1658.
N U M I S M A T I C R E F E R E N C E S
M2 {1878} Loubat 62, p 304; (biography) 304 [2 lines].
M37 {1977} Julian MI-26, p 138 (reads initials as “C.C.” on rev).
E17 {1983} Pessolano-Filos, p 58.
N31 {1992} Smith. American Numismatic Biographies, p 124.
Loubat's only data on this artist was he died in London.
Humphries's designs of six battle scenes from Mexican
War incorporated as vignettes surrounding a central
view in highly detailed design. Medal has two artist's
signatures on each side!
[Cataloger's Note: I believe this was a British war
artist or newspaper artist who passed through New
York City after the Mexican War. Charles C. Wright
viewed Humphries' drawings and decided to
incorporate six of them into his reverse design of
the Scott Medal.]
M E D A L S
1849 Scott (Winfield) Six Battles Medallion (portrait by
Salathiel Ellis, rev designs by G.C. Humphries, both
sides engraved by Charles Cushing Wright) . . . Loubat 62,
Julian MI-26
Auctions:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . BMP 1:4248-4249; CAL 28:860
Collection: American Numismatic Society [>1] . 1995.51.9
Collection: Cornell Univ Johnson Art Gallery . . . . 406
Collection: Smithsonian National Numismatic. . . 336:25
L I S T M E D A L S
1849 Scott (Winfield) Six Battles Medallion [MI-26] List 424
Collection: Princeton Library Vermeule (NC2002-72) . 130
Exhibited: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (1991) . . . . . 130
C O L L E C T I O N S
C4 {1912} Comparette 25, p 336.
B I O G R A P H I C A L R E F E R E N C E S
D15 {1957} Groce and Wallace p 334.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 2:1658.
N U M I S M A T I C R E F E R E N C E S
M2 {1878} Loubat 62, p 304; (biography) 304 [2 lines].
M37 {1977} Julian MI-26, p 138 (reads initials as “C.C.” on rev).
E17 {1983} Pessolano-Filos, p 58.
N31 {1992} Smith. American Numismatic Biographies, p 124.