Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Mayor of Amsterdam, Medal Presented by the City of Amsterdam
Also known as: Gijsbert van Tienhoven, burgemeester van Amsterdam, penning aangeboden door de stad Amsterdam
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1883
Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Mayor of Amsterdam, Medal Presented by the City of Amsterdam — Rijksmuseum object NG-170-1. Dated by the museum: 1883. Museum attribution: medalist: Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion, Amsterdam.
Material: bronze (metal). Museum description: Bronze medal. Obverse: bust of a man within an inscription. Reverse: standing woman with statue in right and palette with brushes in left hand, Mercury with hat and staff seated amidst piles of merchandise, and man with burning torch and hammer standing before an anvil; behind them a low wall and view of a festival building, houses, and ship within an inscription,
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Physical characteristics
- Materials
- bronze (metal)
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 7.5 cm x weight 182.85 g
Identification
- Original title
- Gijsbert van Tienhoven, burgemeester van Amsterdam, penning aangeboden door de stad Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-170-1
- Museum classification
- erepenning
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