International competition of select manufactures and machines, during the exhibition of Dutch and colonial industry in Arnhem, medal awarded to the board and jury
Also known as: Internationale wedstrijd van sommige fabrikaten en werktuigen, tijdens de tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche en koloniale nijverheid te Arnhem, penning uitgereikt aan bestuur en jury
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1879
Bronze medal. Obverse: the Netherlands, depicted as a woman with a sledgehammer in her right hand resting on an anvil. Beside and behind her, a steam engine, cogwheel, and anchor.
Next to her stands a man, personifying the Dutch East Indies, who places his right hand on her shoulder and holds a sugar cane in his left hand. To the left, among other things, a steam engine, an anchor, and a cogwheel, and to the right an East Indies house with palm tree and agricultural produce. Reverse: a beehive against which rest the coats of arms of the Netherlands and Arnhem, under a laurel wreath and star, standing amidst objects of industry within an inscription.
Exergue: inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-4319; its record gives material recorded as bronze (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 5 cm x weight 48.24 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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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 5 cm x weight 48.24 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 5 cm x weight 48.24 g
Design
- Obverse
- the Netherlands, depicted as a woman with a sledgehammer in her right hand resting on an anvil. Beside and behind her, a steam engine, cogwheel, and anchor. Next to her stands a man, personifying the Dutch East Indies, who places his right hand on her shoulder and holds a sugar cane in his left hand. To the left, among other things, a steam engine, an anchor, and a cogwheel, and to the right an East Indies house with palm tree and agricultural produce.
- Reverse
- a beehive against which rest the coats of arms of the Netherlands and Arnhem, under a laurel wreath and star, standing amidst objects of industry within an inscription. Exergue: inscription.
Identification
- Original title
- Internationale wedstrijd van sommige fabrikaten en werktuigen, tijdens de tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche en koloniale nijverheid te Arnhem, penning uitgereikt aan bestuur en jury
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-1-4319
- Museum classification
- erepenning
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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