Drawing Academy Pictura in The Hague, medal awarded as first and second prize
Also known as: Tekenakademie Pictura te 's-Gravenhage, penning uitgereikt als eerste en tweede prijs
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1780
Silver medal. Obverse: young man watering a flowerbed with a watering can and scattering medals behind his back with his left hand, which are caught by two genii, the right one holding a sickle in his hand with which he cuts grain standing before him; above on a cloud sits a woman with a bunch of flowers in her hand, representing the goddess Flora; exergue: year. Reverse: inscription divided into three fields by two horizontal lines. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-2821; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 4.7 cm x weight 37.98 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
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- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 4.7 cm x weight 37.98 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 4.7 cm x weight 37.98 g
Design
- Obverse
- young man watering a flowerbed with a watering can and scattering medals behind his back with his left hand, which are caught by two genii, the right one holding a sickle in his hand with which he cuts grain standing before him; above on a cloud sits a woman with a bunch of flowers in her hand, representing the goddess Flora; exergue: year.
- Reverse
- inscription divided into three fields by two horizontal lines.
Identification
- Original title
- Tekenakademie Pictura te 's-Gravenhage, penning uitgereikt als eerste en tweede prijs
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-1-2821
- Museum classification
- award medal
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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