Biennial Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture in The Hague, medal awarded to Johannes Petrus Schouberg
Also known as: Tweejaarlijks tentoonstelling van schilder- en beeldhouwkunst te 's-Gravenhage, penning uitgereikt aan Johannes Petrus Schouberg
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1839
Silver medal. Obverse: crowned woman with palm branch in outstretched right hand, personifying the city of The Hague, seated beside a half-column decorated with a crowned coat of arms against which leans a ship's rudder; before her a lyre, palette, brushes, ruler, triangle, etc.
Reverse: inscription in medallion within a tied wreath of oak and orange branches and an inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-3826; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 4.7 cm x weight 39.76 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.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 4.7 cm x weight 39.76 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 4.7 cm x weight 39.76 g
Design
- Obverse
- crowned woman with palm branch in outstretched right hand, personifying the city of The Hague, seated beside a half-column decorated with a crowned coat of arms against which leans a ship's rudder; before her a lyre, palette, brushes, ruler, triangle, etc.
- Reverse
- inscription in medallion within a tied wreath of oak and orange branches and an inscription.
Identification
- Original title
- Tweejaarlijks tentoonstelling van schilder- en beeldhouwkunst te 's-Gravenhage, penning uitgereikt aan Johannes Petrus Schouberg
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-1-3826
- 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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