Medal

Samuel Cohen Elion (signed by artist), 1853

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: vrouw met sikkel en tarwe- en roggeschoven onder haar linkerarm, voorstellende Nederland, kijkt hoe Neptunus op zijn zeewagen wegvlucht met roeispaan in geheven linkerhand; op achtergrond gemaal de Leeghwater; afsnede: signatuur. Keerzijde: opschrift. De penning is gemerkt met de Mercuriusstaf van de Rijksmunt.

  • Artwork typehistory medal
  • Object numberNG-MC-1106
  • Dimensionsdiameter 7.5 cm x weight 229.92 g
  • Physical characteristicssilver

Samuel Cohen Elion, after Nicolaas Pieneman

Medal

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1853

Inscriptions

  • signature, obverse:N:PIENEMAN. INV / S.C. ELION. F.
  • inscription, reverse:LACVS HARLEMENSIS / SAECVLV AGRIS INSVLTANS / ET SPOLIIS SEMPER AVCTVS / TANDEM VI MACHINARVM PERDOMITVS / RAPTA XVIII MILLIA JVGERVM / HOLLANDIAE REDDIDIT / OPVS AVCTORE GVILIELMO I / Ao. MDCCCXXXIX INCHOATVM / REGNANTE GVILIELMO III / Ao. MDCCCLIII PERFECTVM.

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1106


Entry

Silver commemorative medal with on recto a woman representing the Netherlands, with a sickle in her right hand and sheaves of corn underneath her left arm, looking at Neptune fleeing on his sea chariot with an oar in his raised left hand; in the background to the right the Leeghwater pumping station is depicted. With an inscription on verso. The medal is marked by the Rijksmunt with a Mercury staff in a square box (NG-MC-1106-A).

The medal commemorates the reclaiming of the Haarlemmermeer, completed in 1853.


Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1106; K. van der Pols, De ontwikkeling van het wateropvoerwerktuig in Nederland 1770-1870, Delft 1984, pp. 47-58


Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Samuel Cohen Elion, Medal, Amsterdam, 1853', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20047668

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