Silver medal (reverse) of the University of Glasgow

This is the obverse of a silver medal of the University of Glasgow. The unawarded medal was made by James Tassie of Glasgow and is decorated with a glass paste cameo of John Anderson.

Silver and glass paste medal of Glasgow University, unawarded, and made by James Tassie of Glasgow, no date

John Anderson became a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1760. He had radical views on education and left money in his will to endow what became Anderson's Institute, forerunner of the University of Strathclyde.

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