John Trumbull American Art-Union Medal | Yale University Art Gallery

1849

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 119.66 g, 12:00, 64 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Maria Trumbull Dana
Accession Number: 1957.11.1
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: JOHN - TRUMBULL around head of John Trumbull l. Beneath truncation, C. C. WRIGHT F; around bottom, R. HuGHES 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, 1849; on second step, P.P.P.D.; on rear of platform, C.C.W.F.

Provenance

Miss Maria Trumbull Dana, to 1957; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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. 123, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

medals

Marks

"C.C. WRIGHT F." below

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John Trumbull American Art-Union Medal Engraver: Charles Cushing Wright (American, 1796–1857) Manufacturer: American Art-Union (1844–1852) After: Robert Ball Hughes (American, 1804–1868)