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Jörg Ebner of Nuremberg

Medal
1559 (made)
Artist/Maker
Monogrammist PL (maker)
Deschler, Joachim (artist)
Place of origin
Germany (made)

This is a medal made by the Monogrammist PL in 1559. This medal, representing Jörg Ebner, is copied from a medal by Joachim Deschler; it is the only known work by the monogrammist. It seems to be made of talc or steatite, rather than Solnhofen stone. The inscription is clumsily inscribed, and the work may be a later pastiche of a sixteenth-century German medal.


Object details

Categories
Access_to_Images 2003
Coins & Medals
Portraits
SCRAN
Object type
Medal
TitleJörg Ebner of Nuremberg (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Talc or steatite
Talc
Steatite
Brief description
Medal, possibly steatite or talc, bust of Jörg Ebner of Nuremberg, by the Monogrammist PL, Germany, 1559
Physical description
Obv. only, bust of Jörg Ebner facing 3/4 right, bearded and bare-headed, and wearing a slashed jerkin.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 2.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'IORG - EBNER' (Obverse)
  • 'PL' (Signature; Obverse to left of head)
  • '1559' (Date; Obverse, on the truncation)
Object history
Provenance: Tross. 140 medals and reliefs were purchased from M. Henri Tross of Paris for £500 by J.C. Robinson for the Museum in 1867.
Production
May be a later pastiche of a 16th century medal. It seems to made of talc or steatite, rather than Solnhofen stone.
Subjects depicted
Bust
Ebner, Jörg (Of Nuremberg)
Summary
This is a medal made by the Monogrammist PL in 1559. This medal, representing Jörg Ebner, is copied from a medal by Joachim Deschler; it is the only known work by the monogrammist. It seems to be made of talc or steatite, rather than Solnhofen stone. The inscription is clumsily inscribed, and the work may be a later pastiche of a sixteenth-century German medal.
Bibliographic references
  • Trusted, Marjorie. German Renaissance Medals. Victoria & Albert Museum, 1990, p. 81
  • Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1867. Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol. 1. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 23
  • Mauè, H. [Review] German Renaissance Medals. The Medal. Spring, 1991, no. 18, p. 106
Collection
Sculpture Collection
Accession number
191-1867

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Record createdMarch 1, 2004
Record URL
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