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Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam, entrance medal for the hortus medicus
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Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam, entrance medal for the hortus medicus

anonymous · 1648 · casting; brass (alloy)

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

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Brass medal. Obverse: Death, depicted as a skeleton, in a field of flowers with a scythe in the right hand and with the left hand on an hourglass standing on a pedestal. Reverse: vase with flowers between the year; on the vase: coat of arms above a cartouche within an inscription.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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toegangspenningmedalHortus MedicusAmsterdam
Credit lineChirurgijnsgilde te Amsterdam, toegangspenning voor de hortus medicus. 1648. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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