Washington Allston American Art-Union Medal Designer: Peter Paul Duggan (American, born Ireland, 1810–1861)
Engraver: Charles Cushing Wright (American, 1796–1857)
Manufacturer: American Art-Union (1844–1852)

1847

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

134.12 g, 12:00, 64.5 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Accession Number

2001.87.2999

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: "WASHINGTON/ALLSTON"; "P.P. DUGGAN DEL. C.C. WRIGHT SC." below portrait bust near rim. portrait of Washington Allston on one side with the legend

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: "AMERICAN/ART-UNION/1847." standing female figure blessing an artisit and a sculptor with the legend
Provenance
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 2001; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001
Bibliography
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 221–23, no. 121, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

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