- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2021.116
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Leidsevaart (Haarlem-Leiden Canal)
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medal
- Date
- 1659
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370554
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 6.1 cm (2 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: obverse, around edge: Ao 1659.26.7bc IS DE TRECKVAART VAN HAERLEM OP LEIDEN BEGONNEN 1657. Po.9bc D EERSTE SCHVIT GEVAREN
- inscription: obverse, on banner: VICIT VIM VIRTVS.
- inscription: reverse: MEMORIAM / Viae munitae et Fossae / actae ad lintres equo / trahendos musum publicu / et commodum viantium opus / ducentibus Hug et lo, Steiniis / exigentibus publice. IVvirus. Car Gulde wagio G. Fabrito / M. Steimo. F. Worrterio / hunc nummum percussere / Consules anni 1658
- Provenance
- Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.116
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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