Model for Coin for the Irish Free State: Leath phinginn (halfpenny)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1652
People: Paul Manship, American (St. Paul, MN 1885 - 1966 New York, NY)
Title: Model for Coin for the Irish Free State: Leath phinginn (halfpenny)
Other Titles: Alternate Title: NINE MEDALS SIMILAR IN DESIGN TO COINS 1943.1647A- H.
Classification: Medals and Medallions
Work Type: medal
Date: c. 1929
Culture: Irish
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229434

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

211.84 g, 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: Obverse: 1/2 leath phinginn

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Paul Manship, New York, New York, sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, New York (through Martin Birnbaum), 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museums, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1652

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Publication History

John Manship, Paul Manship, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1989), pp. 125-126

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