Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commemorative Medal
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1904
This bronze commemorative medal was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman in 1904 in the United States. Produced for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the medal has a shield-like triangular silhouette with curved borders and measures 7 by 7 cm (2 3/4 by 2 3/4 in.). It is executed in bronze finished with a patina of bronze doré.
The obverse relief composition depicts an eagle with outspread wings perched atop an architectural tablet bearing the inscription "COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL / LOUISIANA PURCHASE / EXPOSITION". Below the tablet rests a scallop shell flanked by two dolphins, framed along the lower perimeter by a border of stars and an encircled fleur-de-lis motif at the point. The obverse is signed "A.A. Weinman FECT.", and the reverse is recorded as bearing the inscription "UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOUIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / MCMIV".
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze, with patina of bronze doré
- Dimensions
- 7 × 7 cm (2 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Technical characteristics
- Inscriptions
- Signed on obverse: A.A. Weinman FECT. inscribed: COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL/LOUISIANA PURCHASE/EXPOSITION on reverse: UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOUIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/MCMIV
- Maker recorded
- Adolph Alexander Weinman, American, born Germany, 1890–1952
- Place recorded
- United States
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Art Institute of Chicago collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition commemorative medal
- Museum object number
- 1912.1529
Catalogue references
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