18 The Very Rev. H. R. Dawson on the 



into execution, though medals of Ussher, Swift, Charlemont, Sheridan, and 

 Grattan afford some evidence of a commencement. Their execution, and the 

 fidelity of the likenesses they exhibit, are such as to make us regret the design 

 was allowed to fall to the ground. The last die that I can discover of his work- 

 manship is one of a noble medallion of the illustrious Wellington ; it appears as 

 jf the subject, as well as the country of the hero, had sharpened his graver, and 

 directed his hand, for it is in truth a spirited performance, having on the obverse 

 a bust of the Duke to the left, and on the reverse the appropriate emblem of 

 Victory crowning a warrior, who is seated, leaning upon his shield. There is 

 also, by the same hand, a small medallet of the hero, a perfect gem ; the die 

 came into the hands of the late Mr. West of Skinner-row, and impressions from 

 it are very rare. On one side it exhibits a bust inscribed duke of Wellington, 

 and on the other the simple but expressive word Waterloo, inclosed in a v«-eath; 

 this reverse however was executed by another artist. Mossop died in 18275 

 having for some time previous been afflicted by mental aberration, brought on 

 probably by intense application, and increased by those disappointments con- 

 comitant with unrequited genius and professional assiduity. 



Unwilling to break in upon the account of the two Mossops, I must here 

 insert a reference to some medals struck in the years 1 797-8. Kirk, an artist 

 well known in England, thought it no disparagement of his own talents to copy 

 from Mossop's medal the head of Primate Robinson, and place it on a smaller 

 one with his name, and bearing on the reverse an elevation of the library at 

 Armagh, as a memorial of the liberality of that munificent prelate. The two 

 next are miserable in point of design and workmanship. They were executed 

 under the direction of a person named Brush, who was a silversmith, and as 

 appears from them totally devoid of skill and judgment in that line. One I 

 imagine to be the original badge of the Orange Society, and bears a figure of 

 William III. on horseback within a border of orange lilies. On a scroll above, 

 THE glorious MEMORY, and below, KING AND CONSTITUTION. Rcvcrsc, a 

 sword and sceptre in saltire through a crown, in a wreath of orange lilies, and 

 below on a scroll, god save the king. The second bears the legend, corpo- 

 ration AND citizens OF LIMERICK, — a castlc, with the armorial bearings of the 

 city in a wreath of laurel and palm. Reverse, a crown within a laurel wreath 

 inscribed to the heroes of coloony, 5th • sep*. 1798. It was designed to 



