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Commemorative and portrait medals gained popularity during the Renaissance and medal making spread out beyond the Italian peninsula. In the Netherlands, the period of intense economic change and new prosperity of the 17th century coincided with a new interest in medals as a portable, reproducible art form suitable for depicting a wide range of subjects. Some medals depict important people, like rulers, elected officials, naval and military heroes; some show events, such as significant battles, treaties signed, marriages; and others show buildings or institutions that spoke of the United Provinces’ prosperity and commerce, like the town hall and the stock exchange in Amsterdam. This medal is one of a number in the collection which commemorate the naval Four Days Battle in June 1666, an important conflict in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Death / Four Days Battle
Wouter Muller (Dutch, 1604–1673)
1666
Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection
Accession Number2021.174
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Commemorative and portrait medals gained popularity during the Renaissance and medal making spread out beyond the Italian peninsula. In the Netherlands, the period of intense economic change and new prosperity of the 17th century coincided with a new interest in medals as a portable, reproducible art form suitable for depicting a wide range of subjects. Some medals depict important people, like rulers, elected officials, naval and military heroes; some show events, such as significant battles, treaties signed, marriages; and others show buildings or institutions that spoke of the United Provinces’ prosperity and commerce, like the town hall and the stock exchange in Amsterdam. This medal is one of a number in the collection which commemorate the naval Four Days Battle in June 1666, an important conflict in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Inscriptionsrecto, around edge: HEER EVERTS MET TRIOMF, OP'T BED VAN EER GESNEEFT, ALDUS IN'T SILVER DOOR DE KUNST VAN MULLIER LEEFT Ao 1666 den 11 Junii
recto, lower banner: CORN EVERTSEN ADMIRAAL V. ZEEL
verso, around edge: HIER STRYCKT HET BRITSCH GEWELT VOOR NEDERLANT DE VLAGH DE ZEE HEEFT NOIT GEWAECHT VAN ZULKEN ZWAEREN SLAGH
recto, lower banner: CORN EVERTSEN ADMIRAAL V. ZEEL
verso, around edge: HIER STRYCKT HET BRITSCH GEWELT VOOR NEDERLANT DE VLAGH DE ZEE HEEFT NOIT GEWAECHT VAN ZULKEN ZWAEREN SLAGH
ProvenanceProbably about 1980s/1990s, acquired by George S. Abrams, Newton, MA; 2021, gift of George S. Abrams to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 2021)