Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Petrus Smidt, Mennonite professor in Amsterdam, and Sara de Koker, and the wedding of their daughter Cornelia Smidt
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Silver medal. Obverse: Netherlands, depicted as a helmeted woman, sits reading in thought; beside her, Mercury with staff and winged helmet leans on a pile of merchandise within an inscription. To the right, between two orange trees, an obelisk with the inscription XXV within a cartouche; atop the obelisk, a nest of a pelican feeding its young with its own blood; before the obelisk, an altar with two burning hearts bound together with a ribbon; on the base, an image of a stork in a medallion; in the background, a pond with a ship; to the left, an obelisk with an L on the base, next to a palm tree; above this, an all-seeing eye in a radiant halo within an inscription.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description