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Universal Exhibition Vienna, 1873

Medal
1873 (made)
Artist/Maker
Tautenhayn, Josef (medallist)
Schwenzer, Karl (medallist)
Place of origin
Austria (made)

Obverse: portrait head in profile of Emperor Franz Joseph I looking right and crowned with laurels. Inscribed.
Reverse: Two labourers, one seated with a log the other standing by an anvil, a hammer in his left hand, being crowned with a wreath by a semi-clad femino boy. Inscribed.


Object details

Categories
Coins & Medals
Portraits
Royalty
Sculpture
Object type
Medal
TitleUniversal Exhibition Vienna, 1873 (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Bronze
Brief description
Medal, bronze, Universal Exhibition Vienna, 1873, by Josef Tautenhayn (obverse) and Karl Schwenzer (reverse), Austria, 1873
Physical description
Obverse: portrait head in profile of Emperor Franz Joseph I looking right and crowned with laurels. Inscribed.
Reverse: Two labourers, one seated with a log the other standing by an anvil, a hammer in his left hand, being crowned with a wreath by a semi-clad femino boy. Inscribed.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'FRANZ JOSEPH I. KAISER VON OESTERREICH . KOENIG VON BOEHMEN ETC, APOST KOENIG VON UNGARN . /J TAUTENHAUN.' (obverse)
  • 'WELTAUSSTELLUNG 1873 WIEN/DEM MITARBEITER/K. SCHWENZER.' (reverse)
Object history
Given in the name of Baurat Hartwig Fischel by his son Paul J Gordon-Fischel, Chessington, Surrey, in 1983.
Production
Austro-German
Subject depicted
Franz Joseph I (Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia)
Collection
Sculpture Collection
Accession number
A.1-1983

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O349342/universal-exhibition-vienna-1873-medal-tautenhayn-josef/
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