Médaille - Albert et Isabelle

Features

Location Belgium
Type Commemorative medals › Personality or portrait medal
Years 1848-1850
Composition Bronze
Weight 48.2 g
Diameter 46.9 mm
Thickness 5.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
316618

Obverse

Straight busts of the Archduke Albert of Austria and, behind him, of the Infanta Isabelle-Claire-Eugénie of Austria.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ALBERT NÉ EN 1559
ISABELLE NÉE EN 1566
JOUVENEL

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Reverse

A text, covering the entire field, summarizes their political life in the south of the Spanish Netherlands, future Belgium.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
APRÈS LES TROUBLES
DU SEIZIÈME SIÈCLE, LE
RÈGNE DES ARCHIDUCS FUT POUR LA
BELGIQUE UNE ÉPOQUE DE CALME OÙ
ELLE EUT ENFIN UN GOUVERNEMENT A PEU
PRÈS NATIONAL. ON VIT LES ARTS LONGTEMPS
EXILÉS FAIRE DE NOUVEAU LA GLOIRE DU
PAYS SOUS DES PRINCES AMIS DE LA PAIX.
1599, VAINS PROJETS DE PACIFICATION. 1600,
DÉFAITE DE NIEUPORT. 1604, PRISE D’OSTENDE.
1609, TRÊVE DE DOUZE ANS CONCLUE AVEC LES
HOLLANDAIS. 1621, NOUVELLES HOSTILITÉS,
MORT D’ALBERT. 1625, PRISE DE BREDA.
1629, NÉGOCIATIONS POUR LA PAIX DE
NOUVEAU ROMPUE. 1632, SUCCÈS
DES HOLLANDAIS. 1633, MORT
DE L’INFANTE ISABELLE.

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Edge

Plain

Comments

From 1848 to 1850, Adolphe-Christian Jouvenel engraved and published in Brussels a collection of 25 bronze medals in ±47 mm modules, depicting portraits of "Belgium's great men". At the time, each medal was sold for 4 Belgian francs.
34 mm bronze or brass tokens reproducing some of these medals were also engraved, to make the publication accessible to all, according to the prospectus of the time, with a more democratic selling price of 50 centimes.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1848-1850) 

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