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Medal
German
late 19th century
Object Place: Germany
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 50 mm (1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Susan A. Wilcox
Accession Number15.839
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionCircular medal.
Obverse: Two overlapping profile busts looking to proper right, each wearing laureate crown, in oak and laurel branches bundled together by ribbon; inscribed on ribbon "1759-1805/1749-1832".
Reverse: Female figure of music at center holding a lute in proper left hand and a branch in proper right hand flanked by the Garden House and the Goethe House in background; inscribed above "ZUR ERINNERUNG AN WEIMARS KLASSISCHE ZEIT", under proper right building "DARTEN-HAUS", under proper left building "GOETHE-HAUS", at proper right "DEM/UNSTERBUCHEN", and at proper left "EIN/DENKMAL".
Obverse: Two overlapping profile busts looking to proper right, each wearing laureate crown, in oak and laurel branches bundled together by ribbon; inscribed on ribbon "1759-1805/1749-1832".
Reverse: Female figure of music at center holding a lute in proper left hand and a branch in proper right hand flanked by the Garden House and the Goethe House in background; inscribed above "ZUR ERINNERUNG AN WEIMARS KLASSISCHE ZEIT", under proper right building "DARTEN-HAUS", under proper left building "GOETHE-HAUS", at proper right "DEM/UNSTERBUCHEN", and at proper left "EIN/DENKMAL".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed on ribbon "1759-1805/1749-1832".
Reverse: Inscribed above "ZUR ERINNERUNG AN WEIMARS KLASSISCHE ZEIT", under proper right building "DARTEN-HAUS", under proper left building "GOETHE-HAUS", at proper right "DEM/UNSTERBUCHEN", and at proper left "EIN/DENKMAL".
Reverse: Inscribed above "ZUR ERINNERUNG AN WEIMARS KLASSISCHE ZEIT", under proper right building "DARTEN-HAUS", under proper left building "GOETHE-HAUS", at proper right "DEM/UNSTERBUCHEN", and at proper left "EIN/DENKMAL".
ProvenanceBy 1915, Miss Susan A. wilcox; 1915, gift of Miss Susan A. Wilcox to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 6, 1915)