Electrotype of the Crutchett Medal After: Benjamin Duvivier (French, 1730–1819)
Engraver: Abraham Demarest (American, active 1859–80)
Manufacturer: James Crutchett (American, active ca. 1859–80, died 1889)
Honorand: George Washington, American, 1732–1799, LL.D. 1781

ca. 1865

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Copper electrotype

Dimensions

328.73 g, 12:00, 93 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Gilbert Steinberg

Accession Number

2001.87.2941

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Within thick fasces-like border, GEORGE - WASHINGTON / J. CRUTCHETT, MT. VERNON FACTORY. around undraped bust of George Washington facing right. A. DEMAREST, / SC. N.Y. below truncation.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Within thick fasces-like border, two men stand before entrance to Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon. On truncation of foreground (exergual line), A. DEMAREST, N.Y. In exergue: TOMB OF WASHINGTON. / J. CRUTCHETT, MT. VERNON FACTORY.
Provenance
Gilbert Steinberg, to about 1984; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1984 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), no. 28
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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