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Tribute to the French Vice-Admiral De Suffren by the VOC
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Bronze medal. Obverse: head of a classicist woman facing left, with hair raised and ending in an elephant's head, wearing a small crown on her head; below, an (antique) rudder with fish and VOC emblem, around which is draped a laurel branch; with inscription, signed. Reverse: inscription within a laurel wreath. Commissioned by the VOC as a tribute to French Vice-Admiral De Suffren for services rendered during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784), particularly at the Cape of Good Hope and off the coasts of Ceylon (Trincomali) and India.
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Credit lineEerbetoon aan de Franse vice-admiraal De Suffren door de VOC. 1784. Johann Heinrich Schepp. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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