1956.16: Leopold I (1640-1705)
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1956.16
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Leopold I (1640-1705)
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medal
- Date
- 1683
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
- Culture
- Austrian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228420
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lead
- Dimensions
- 15.2 cm diam. x 2 cm depth (6 x 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- inscription: obverse, around perimeter: LEOPOLD. D.G. EL. ROM . I. S. A. C. H. BOH. ZC. REX [= Leopoldus Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Germaniae Hungariae Bohemiae Zclavonia Rex]
- inscription: reverse: DIE STADT / SO GOTT / BEWACHT / ZERSTORT KEIN / FEINDES MACHT / WIEN / MDCLXXXIII [= the city guarded by God, no enemy can destroy]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Paul Gourary, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul Gourary
- Accession Year
- 1956
- Object Number
- 1956.16
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Obverse: portrait bust of Leopold, three-quarters right
Publication History
- Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), no. 71 pp. 119-120, repr. as pl. LVI
Verification Level
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