Carnegie Corporation Award Medal
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1934
Obverse: Bellerophon stands to the foreground with left leg raised on the step. Pegasus rears in the background. Reverse: an unwound scroll decoration beneath which is a lit oil lamp. Inscribed.
This bronze medal was issued by the Carnegie Corporation as award medal and is made by Paul Manship (1885-1966), in the USA in 1934. The inscription reveals that it was awarded to Sir Percy Nunn (1870-1944), who was a distinctive educator in Science. Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911 and envisioned it as a foundation that would “promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.”
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- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Diameter 10.3 cm
- Materials and techniques
- Bronze
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- USA
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O313332
- Museum object number
- A.138-1978
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
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