Medal of the 1853 Exhibition of Industry of All Nations Maker: Unknown

1853

Numismatics

On view, 1st floor, Numismatics
Medium

White metal

Dimensions

147.72 g, 12:00, 73.5 mm

Credit Line

Ruth Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2007.3.1

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS above, NEW YORK / 1853 / CARSTENSEN & GILDMIESTER / ARCHITECTS below. The Crystal Palace.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Globe Africa in center, inscribed ATLANTIC / OCEAN and SOUTHERN / OCEAN, with personifications of the contintents at 3:00, 6:00, 9:00, 12:00.
Provenance
Charles Schwartz, New York, to 2007; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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), 269–70, no. 162, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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