Medal of Washington, De Grasse and Rochambeau Commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Yorktown Engraver: Pierre Turin (French, 1891–1968)
Mint: Paris
Honorand: François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse and Marquis de Grasse-Tilly, French, 1722–1788
Honorand: George Washington, American, 1732–1799, LL.D. 1781
Honorand: Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, French, 1725–1807

1931

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

145.38 g, 12:00, 68 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Reverend George Stewart, B.A.1915, LL.B. 1917, Ph.D. 1921, Hon. DD. 1939

Accession Number

2001.87.2950

Geography

Made in Paris, France

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: = WASHINGTON = DE GRASSE-TILLY = ROCHAMBEAU around jugate busts of Washington, De Grasse and Rochambeau in military dress facing right. MDCCLXXXI - MCMXXXI in exergue.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: CAPITULATION / DE / YORK TOWN above map of battle plan area by sea and land, naval battle with ships, some of them sinking. Fleur-de-lis "map pin" at left. P. TURIN at right. Plain edge, marked BRONZE.
Provenance
Reverend George Stewart; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), 199, no. K-454
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
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Object/Work type

medals

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