Medal of Comitia Americana, Washington before Boston, electrotype Engraver: Benjamin Duvivier (French, 1730–1819)
After: Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828)
Mint: Paris
Honorand: George Washington, American, 1732–1799, LL.D. 1781

1846–60

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

45.58 g, 12:00, 69 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Bequest of the Charles Wyllys Betts, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1871, Collection

Accession Number

2001.87.23204

Geography

Made in Paris, France

Culture

French

Period

19th century after an 18th century original

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: GEORGIO WASHINGTON DVCI EXERCITVVM ADSERTORI LIBERTATIS around, COMITIA AMERICANA horizontally below. Undraped bust of Washington r., beneath which DU VIVIER / PARIS.F. in two lines.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: HOSTIBUS PRIMO FUGATIS above, BOSTONIUM RECUPERATUM / XVII MARTII / MDCCLXXVI below exergual line. To l., on an eminence, Washington and his staff mounted; in the distance, the city of Boston being evacuated by the British, and in the middle ground American troops drawn up ready to take possession; to the right, a fort, and near it two cannon on one of which is inscribed DUVIV.
Provenance
Charles Wyllys Betts, to about 1887; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1887 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Charles Wyllys Betts, American Colonial History Illustrated by Contemporary Medals, 1964 reprint (New York: Scott Stamp and Coin Company, 1964), 244, no. 542
  • William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), no. 48
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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