Medal

Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion (signed by artist), 1866

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: gevleugelde vrouw met stralende ster boven haar hoofd en fakkel in linkerhand, voorstellende Kunst, leidt gevleugelde vrouw met bijenkorf in rechterhand, voorstellende Nijverheid. Keerzijde: opschrift binnen lauwerkrans en omschrift; randschrift

  • Artwork typeaward medal
  • Object numberNG-MC-1212
  • Dimensionsdiameter 5.5 cm x weight 68.68 g
  • Physical characteristicssilver

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Medal

  • Object type

  • Object number

    NG-MC-1212

  • Description

    Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: gevleugelde vrouw met stralende ster boven haar hoofd en fakkel in linkerhand, voorstellende Kunst, leidt gevleugelde vrouw met bijenkorf in rechterhand, voorstellende Nijverheid. Keerzijde: opschrift binnen lauwerkrans en omschrift; randschrift

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • inscription, on the edge: ‘DEPARTEMENT VAN MARINE’
    • inscription, reverse: ‘ALGEM. TENTOONSTELLING VAN NEDERL. NIJVERHEID EN KUNST / 1866 // PALEIS / VOOR / VOLKSVLIJT / TE / AMSTERDAM’
    • signature, obverse: ‘J. ELION. F.’

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Creation

  • Creation

    medalist: Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion (signed by artist), Amsterdam

  • Dating

    1866

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    silver

  • Dimensions

    diameter 5.5 cm x weight 68.68 g

This work is about

  • Person

  • Subject

  • Place

  • Period

    1866

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1866;{J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, no. 1212, manuscript in NHA 476, inv. no. 1089.} transferred to the museum, 1883

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  • Medal
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Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion

Medal

Amsterdam, 1866

Inscriptions

  • signature, obverse:J. ELION. F.
  • inscription, reverse:ALGEM. TENTOONSTELLING VAN NEDERL. NIJVERHEID EN KUNST / 1866 // PALEIS / VOOR / VOLKSVLIJT / TE / AMSTERDAM
  • inscription, on the edge:DEPARTEMENT VAN MARINE

Provenance

…; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1866;1J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, no. 1212, manuscript in NHA 476, inv. no. 1089. transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1212

Entry

Silver medal with on recto a woman with a star above her head and a torch in her left hand, representing Art, leading a winged woman with beehive in her right hand, representing Industry; on verso the inscription and laurels are depicted.

The Department of the Navy received this medal for its participation in the Algemene Tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche Nijverheid en Kunst (Dutch Art and Industry Exhibition) held at the Paleis voor Volksvlijt in Amsterdam in 1866.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1212; T.M. Eliens, Kunst - Nijverheid - Kunstnijverheid, Zutphen 1990, p.81, fig. 55

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion, Medal, Amsterdam, 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20047671

(accessed 28 oktober 2026 21:50:13 UTC+0).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, no. 1212, manuscript in NHA 476, inv. no. 1089.