Medal of George Washington Crossing the Delaware Engraver: Unknown
After: (obverse) Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828)
After: (reverse) Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (American, born Germany, 1816–1868)

ca. 1890

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Copper

Dimensions

27.62 g, 12:00, 38 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Accession Number

2001.87.3006

Geography

Depicted between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Undraped bust of Washington facing right within circle with dentilled rim. GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON * around. Dentilled rim.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: WASHINGTON CROSSING / THE DELAWARE in two curved lines above scene of Washington and men in boat crossing an icy river (after painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). DECEMBER 25TH / 1776 in exergue.
Provenance
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 2001; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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