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Beginning of the year 1750
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Silver medal. Obverse: Netherlands, depicted as a woman with a liberty cap on a spear and olive branch and offering bowl, sitting under a fruit-bearing orange tree; at her feet a lion with a bundle of arrows; with her right arm she leans on an altar within an inscription; edge: inscription. Reverse: Winged Time with a scythe in hand sits on a large bundle, next to a stone with a coat of arms on it; with his right hand he draws a semicircle with a compass; to the right a torch, a dead ox, a yoke and other symbols of disaster within an inscription; edge: date.
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Credit lineAanvang van het jaar 1750. 1750. Johan George Holtzhey. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.