1740

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Source:

Title: Medal
Illustrator: Christian Gottlieb Schwarz
Engraver: Andreas Vestner
Location: Germanisches National Museum, Nürnberg, Med15484
Year: 1740
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [Scan 3].

Comments:

William Blades (1869) describes the obverse as ‘A printing-presss with a Genius on either side, one holding a composing-stick, and the other the inking-balls used by pressmen. Over the press flies Fame blowing a trumpet, and bearing in her left hand a scroll, upon which are emblazoned the names of GUTTENBERG, FAUST, SCHEFFER, MENTELIN, REGIOMONT. The surrounding legend is: BENEFICIO DEI ET SOLERTIA GERMANORUM. In the Exergue: MEMOR . SAECULAR . MDCCXXXX.’ Number: 2 O (illustration page 210, description page 37)’.

Christian Friedrich Gessner (1740) shows an illustration in Volume 3, Table VI, number III. A description can be found in volume 3, page 206-207.

Technique:

Casting?

References:

Blades, William (1869) A list of medals, jettons, tokens, & c., in connection with printers and the art of printing. London. (see Plates 2O).

Gessner, Christian Friedrich (1740) Die so nöthig als nützliche Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiezerey, mit ihren Schriften, Formaten und allen dazu gehörigen Instrumenten Volume 3, Table VI, number III. A description can be found in volume 3, page 206-207.