Desire for Peace in the Southern Netherlands, Jetton in Honour of Claude van Eycken
Also known as: Verlangen naar vrede in de zuidelijke Nederlanden, rekenpenning ter ere van Claude van Eycken
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1632
Copper medal. Obverse: three mourning peasants, standing next to two cannons aimed at a church burning in the background, within circumscription. Reverse: three supplicating peasants, kneeling before Peace, who holds an olive branch in raised right hand and an inverted torch in left hand; behind her: helmeted coat of arms within circumscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-3-1140; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.9 cm x weight 7.95 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
- copper (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 2.9 cm x weight 7.95 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 2.9 cm x weight 7.95 g
Design
- Obverse
- three mourning peasants, standing next to two cannons aimed at a church burning in the background, within circumscription.
- Reverse
- three supplicating peasants, kneeling before Peace, who holds an olive branch in raised right hand and an inverted torch in left hand; behind her: helmeted coat of arms within circumscription
Identification
- Original title
- Verlangen naar vrede in de zuidelijke Nederlanden, rekenpenning ter ere van Claude van Eycken
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-3-1140
- Museum classification
- jeton
Catalogue references
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Research required
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