1740

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Source:

Title: Medal
Illustrator: -
Engraver: Gerrit Marshoorn
Location: Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Object number: TMNK 01828
Year: 1740
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2].

Comments:

William Blades (1869) describes the reverse of this coin as ‘Haarlem, 1740. The great Marshoorn. A printing-press against one end of which rests a shield bearing the Arms of the city of Haarlem: at the other end is an open book “Spiegel onser behoudenise 1440,” the earliest book printed by Coster. To the left in bold letters, TYP. INV. 1428. Near the press is a shield bearing a dove, the device of Coster. At foot in a cartoon is the engraver’s name, G. Marshoorn, and in the Exergue is the date 1740. The whole is surrounded by three serpents forming a circle, each holding the tail of another in its mouth.’ Number: 2G (illustration page 210, description page 27-28).

Christian Friedrich Gessner (1740) shows an illustration in volume 4, Table 1, number I. A description can be found in volume 3, page 480.

Gerrit Marshoorn, geboren in 1703, overleden in 1752, was goudsmid en stempelsnijder te Haarlem. [see note on page 41.]

The Dutch Rijksmuseum has an etching/gravure by Jan Wandelaar, dated 1740. It is not clear which book contains this page.

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 2G).

Gessner, Christian Friedrich (1740) Die so nöthig als nützliche Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiezerey, mit ihren Schriften, Formaten und allen dazu gehörigen Instrumenten Volume 4, Table I, number IV. A description can be found in Volume 3, page 480.