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Inauguration of the Lutheran Deacon's House in Amsterdam
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Silver medal. Obverse: new deacon's house illuminated by a radiant all-seeing eye within inscription; rim: inscription. Reverse: Gratitude, depicted as a veiled woman, kneels before a burning altar with a smoking censer in her hand; beside her a stork; on the other side of the altar a dog, a burning oil lamp and a mirror around which a snake coils; on a cloud Religion descends from heaven, depicted as a woman with a cross, a flaming heart on her head, an anchor and an inverted cornucopia; in the background a Lutheran church and the IJ; rim: signature.
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Credit lineInwijding van het Luthers diaconiehuis te Amsterdam. 1772. Barend Christiaan van Calker. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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