Indian Peace Medal also called the Seasons Medal

1796

Not on view

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 46.00 g, 12:00, 48 mm
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1932.105
Geography: Designed in United States, Manufactured in Birmingham, England
Culture: American, British
Period: 18th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: U.S.A in exergue. Domestic scene in relief, with women at loom and spinning wheel; to r., fireplace with service on mantel; to l., child placing doll in cradle, chair behind.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: SECOND / PRESIDENCY / OF / GEO: WASHINGTON / MDCCXCVI surrounded by laurel and oak wreath.

Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1932; 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), 51–52, no. 20, ill

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

William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), 84, no. 172

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

medals

Subject

Indian peace medals Indigenous peoples of North America

Marks

"CH.K.Fc" on ground line

Inscriptions

Obverse "U.S.A." in relief below; on reverse, "SECOND/ PRESIDENCY/ OF/ GEO: WASHINGTON/ MDCCXCVI" within wreath.

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Indian Peace Medal also called the Seasons Medal Designer: John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843) Engraver: Conrad Heinrich Kuchler (1740–1810) Manufacturer: Boulton and Watt (British, 1775–1896)