Charles Dickens

by: Ronald Searle, 1983
medium: cast bronze
size: 71mm
cast by: Birmingham Mint
issue: The Medal, no. 4 (1984)
edition: 100

description: Famous as a cartoonist (creator of St. Trinian's), caricaturist and animator, Searle made his first medals for the Paris Mint in the early 1970s. He has since executed several medals for BAMS, of which this was the first.

other medals by this maker:

• Samuel Pepys
• Bernini Getting the Message from the Angel of the Baroque
• Cannibal Medal
• Searle at Seventy
• Kwai 50th Anniversary Medal
• Bye Bye Eye
• James Boswell