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Numismatics
Designer: John Trumbull, American, 1756–1843
Engraver: Conrad Heinrich Kuchler, 1740–1810
Manufacturer: Boulton and Watt
Indian Peace Medal also called the Seasons Medal
1796
Silver
46.00 g, 12:00, 48 mm
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1932.105
Geography:
Designed in United States
Manufactured in Birmingham, England
Status:
On view
Culture:
American, British
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Numismatics
Provenance:
Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1932; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, p. 272, no. 1030.
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), 51–52, no. 20, ill.
William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), 84, no. 172.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.