Amsterdam Poetry and Literary Society "Wij streeven naar de volmaaktheid", medal awarded to Jacob Cuyck van Mierop
Also known as: Amsteldamsch Dicht- en Letteroefenend Genootschap "Wij streeven naar de volmaaktheid", penning uitgereikt aan Jacob Cuyck van Mierop
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1783-12-10 - 1800
Silver medal. Obverse: poet, seated by an altar whose pedestal bears a coat of arms, holds a half-unrolled poetry scroll in his hand, while a putto hovering above him holds a laurel wreath over his head; on the other side of the altar, a putto playing a lyre, a second putto with a book under his arm and an oil lamp with which he provides light for a third, who sits writing in a book; a hand from the clouds draws a circle with a pair of compasses within an inscription.
Reverse: cloth with inscription, attached to a frame on which rest a lyre, sprigs, a book, a paper scroll, a laurel wreath and a wreathed trumpet; behind it radiant light; on either side of the cloth flower garlands within an inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-6-38; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking), engraving; measurements diameter 5.5 cm x weight 75.6 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), engraving
- Measurements
- diameter 5.5 cm x weight 75.6 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 5.5 cm x weight 75.6 g
Design
- Obverse
- poet, seated by an altar whose pedestal bears a coat of arms, holds a half-unrolled poetry scroll in his hand, while a putto hovering above him holds a laurel wreath over his head; on the other side of the altar, a putto playing a lyre, a second putto with a book under his arm and an oil lamp with which he provides light for a third, who sits writing in a book; a hand from the clouds draws a circle with a pair of compasses within an inscription.
- Reverse
- cloth with inscription, attached to a frame on which rest a lyre, sprigs, a book, a paper scroll, a laurel wreath and a wreathed trumpet; behind it radiant light; on either side of the cloth flower garlands within an inscription
Identification
- Original title
- Amsteldamsch Dicht- en Letteroefenend Genootschap "Wij streeven naar de volmaaktheid", penning uitgereikt aan Jacob Cuyck van Mierop
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-6-38
- Museum classification
- award medal
Catalogue references
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