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International competition of certain manufactures and tools, during the exhibition of Dutch and colonial industry in Arnhem, medal awarded to the board and jury
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International competition of certain manufactures and tools, during the exhibition of Dutch and colonial industry in Arnhem, medal awarded to the board and jury

Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion · 1879 · striking (metalworking); bronze (metal)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Bronze medal. Obverse: Netherlands, depicted as a woman with a hammer in her right hand, resting on an anvil. Next to and behind her a steam engine, wheel, and anchor. Next to her stands a man, representing the Dutch East Indies, who places his right hand on her shoulder and holds a sugar cane in his left hand. To the left, among other things, a steam engine, an anchor, and a ram; to the right, an Indian house with a palm tree and agricultural products. Reverse: a beehive, against which rest coats of arms of the Netherlands and Arnhem, under a laurel wreath and star, standing amidst objects of industry within legend. Lower edge: inscription.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineInternationale wedstrijd van sommige fabrikaten en werktuigen, tijdens de tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche en koloniale nijverheid te Arnhem, penning uitgereikt aan bestuur en jury. 1879. Jacob Samuel Cohen Elion. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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