Maker
Benedetto Pistrucci
Maker name as recorded in the holding museum's catalogue: “Benedetto Pistrucci (Italian, 1784–1855)”. Biographical and business details beyond that record have not been independently verified.
- Kind
- engraver
- Country
- Italy
Entries are linked to a maker only where the museum or collection record names that maker; attributed, workshop and uncertain names are not linked.
Published entries
3
Individual types and documented families
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100%
3 with a credited real-object photo
Dated span
1817 – 1823
3 entries with their own date
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Catalogue entries (3)
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Cleveland Museum of Art
modern coins
Sovereign: George III (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.212)
1817
Great changes had occurred since King George III's previous coinage. The Royal Mint had moved out of the Tower of London to new premises in Little Tower Hill. The new mint was fitted with the latest steam-driven machinery by Boulton and Watt, and the whole coinage had been reformed. The guinea of twenty-one shilling…
Partial type record
Cleveland Museum of Art
modern coins
Two Pound Piece: George III (obverse); St. George and the Dragon (Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.213)
1820
The five- and two-pound pieces struck for George III were only struck as patterns in this, the last year of the his reign. No pieces of either denomination were put into circulation. This piece shows Pistrucci's Saint George as modified by Wyon. In the original the lance is broken; here the lance a been converted by…
Partial type record
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
medals
Medal — William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington and 1st Baron Maryborough, Pistrucci, Benedetto, London, 1823
1823
Medal, bronze, portrait of Lord Maryborough, Master of the Mint, by Benedetto Pistrucci, England (London), 1823. Obverse: bare head of Lord Maryborough, facing right. Reverse: Inscription. The museum record gives material recorded as bronze; measurements Diameter 5.07 cm; place associated: London; maker recorded: Pi…
Partial type record
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- Modern World Coins2
- Commemorative and Award Medals1
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- Gold2
- Bronze1
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