Nobel Prize Medal for Literature presented to Sinclair Lewis Artist: Erik Lindberg (Swedish, 1873–1966)
Honorand: Sinclair Lewis

1930

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room

Medium

Gold

Dimensions

206.44 g, 12:00, 66 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Sinclair Lewis

Accession Number

2001.87.1798

Geography

Made in Stockholm, Sweden

Culture

Swedish

Period

20th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Bust of Alfred Nobel l. To l., ALFR. / NOBEL; to r., NAT./ MDCCC / XXXIII / OB. /MDCCC / XCVI. At 7:00 incuse, E LINDBERG 1902.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: INVENTAS VITAM IUVAT EXCOLUISSE PER ARTES around, ACAD - SUEC in exergue flanking platform engraved SINCLAIR LEWIS / MCMXXX. Apollo laureate and draped standing r. playing lyre with r. hand; before him sits a nude male laureate writing with r. in a notebook and raising l.; behind him a laurel tree. In small letters at 7:00, ERIK / LINDBERG.
Provenance
Sinclair Lewis; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
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Object/Work type

medals

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