Prize Medal for the Department of the Navy, presented at the exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Great Britain

Richard Silvester Warrington, 1882

Gouden penning. Voorzijde: gehelmd wapenschild, bekroond met ark van Noach, waarop duif met olijftak in bek zit, boven wimpel met opschrift binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: opschrift binnen lauwerkrans en omschrift.

  • Artwork typemedal, award medal
  • Object numberNG-2019-34
  • Dimensionsdiameter 5.4 cm x weight 72.61 g

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Prize Medal for the Department of the Navy, presented at the exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Great Britain

  • Object type

  • Object number

    NG-2019-34

  • Description

    Gouden penning. Voorzijde: gehelmd wapenschild, bekroond met ark van Noach, waarop duif met olijftak in bek zit, boven wimpel met opschrift binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: opschrift binnen lauwerkrans en omschrift.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • circumscription: ‘WORSHIPFUL COMPANY - OF SHIPWRIGHTS / WITHIN - THE ARK SAFE - FOR EVER’
    • inscription: ‘LONDON / 1882 / AWARDED TO / THE MINISTER OF MARINE / THE HAGUE’
    • mark: ‘R.S.W. in rechthoek; kroon van Groot-Brittannië in schild; 22 in schild; leeuwenkop in schild; G in schild’
    • circumscription: ‘COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION’

Creation

  • Creation

    medalist: Richard Silvester Warrington, Covent Garden

  • Dating

    1882

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    diameter 5.4 cm x weight 72.61 g

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  • Place

  • Period

    1882

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Documentation

    • Documentatiemap.
    • A.H. Kiehl, Report on the Exhibition of Ship Models etc. held in Fishmonger's Hall, London in May 1882, [Reproduced from the 'Dagblad van Zuidholland en 's Gravenhage', Den Haag 1882.

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