Oh What Are the Prizes We Perish to Win...

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1657.9
People: Herbert Adams, American (Concord, VT 1858 - 1945 New York, NY)
Title: Oh What Are the Prizes We Perish to Win...
Other Titles: Alternate Title: ISSUES 1-27 SOCIETY OF MEDALISTS.
Classification: Medals and Medallions
Work Type: medal
Date: 1934
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229341

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

175.59 g, 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: obverse, l.l.: HA in monogram
inscription: Obverse: Oh what are the prizes we perish to win; reverse: to the first little shiner we caught with a pin. Around edge: Society of Medalists Ninth Issue. Medallic Art Co., NY

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Presumably from the Society of Medalists to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1934; his bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1657.9

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description: Obverse: Boy fishing. Reverse: fish in water. Ninth issue of Society of Medalists. The Fogg owns a second cast of this, 1943.1657.9.

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