Gilbert Stuart American Art-Union Medal | Yale University Art Gallery

1848

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 137.22 g, 12:00, 64 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.87.1091
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: GILBERT - STUART around head of Gilbert Stuart l. Beneath truncation, C. C. WRIGHT F; around bottom, S. ELLIS DEL

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: AMERICAN ART-UNION Draped female on three-step platform holding wreath in l. hand, elbow on shield, standing l. extending palm in r. over male figure holding palette and brushes and a smaller male figure with chisel and hammer; on base of platform, 1848; on second step, DUGGAN DEL. Beneath platform, C. C. Wright in script, incuse.

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. 122, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

medals

Marks

"C.C. WRIGHT F." below portrait bust, \r\n"S. ELLIS DEL." below portrait bust, near rim.\r\nOn reverse, "DUGGAN DEL.", on step under female figure, \r\n"C.C. Wright" engraved in script under date, near rim.

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Gilbert Stuart American Art-Union Medal Maker: Charles Cushing Wright (American, 1796–1857) Manufacturer: American Art-Union (1844–1852) Designer: Peter Paul Duggan (American, born Ireland, 1810–1861) Designer: Salathiel Ellis (American, 1803–1879)