Mourning medal for Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth Manufacturer: Abbott and Company (American, active ca. 1860–61)
Honorand: Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, American, 1837–1861

1861

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Gilt tin, melainotype, and silk

Dimensions

3.9 g, 12:00, 62.5 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Bequest of Whitehead Cornell Duyckinck, B.A. 1865

Accession Number

2001.87.3444

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Within circular gilt tin frame with milled edge, a melainotype (tintype) of an engraved portrait of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: COL. ELMER E. ELLSWORTH / THE GALLANT / Zouave Comander, / MARTYRED FOR HIS COUNTRY / AT / ALEXANDRIA, VA. / May 24, 1861. ABBOTT & CO., 143 NASSAU ST., N.Y. below exergue line. Holed for suspension with black silk ribbon.
Provenance
Whitehead Cornell Duyckinck, to about 1933; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1933 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Elizabeth Fox, "Objects of Valor: Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth and Mythmaking in the Civil War," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2022–23), 32–39, fig. 1
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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