Medal: Commemorating GEORGE WASHINGTON
Medal: Commemorating GEORGE WASHINGTON
Artist
Thomas Webb
(English, active 1800-1830)
Place of OriginEngland, United Kingdom
Date1805
Dimensions3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
Mediumbronze
ClassificationMetalwork
Credit LineGift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Object number
1907.45
Not on View
DescriptionObverse: George Washington in profile, to right.
Inscribed around: GENERAL WASHINGTON. INSCRIBED TO HIS MEMORY BY D. ECCLESTON. LANCASTER MDCCCV.
Reverse: Figure of standing Indian.
Inscribed in concentric circles: HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN LIBERTY IN THE XVIII CENTURY./INNUMERABLE MILLIONS YET UNBORN WILL VENERATE THE MEMORY./OF THE MAN WHO OBTAINED THEIR COUNTRY'S FREEDOM/ THE LAND WAS OURS.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Commemorative Medals, in observance of Human Rights Week, December 1963.
Libbey Glass Company, an operating division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
1976
18th century BCE
around 1900 BCE
Old Akkadian period (ca. 2340–2200 BCE)
Libbey Glass Company, an operating division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
early 1980s
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