Sujet

Medals for the Vienna Exhibition: for Good Taste, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Medals for the Vienna Exhibition: for Good Taste, 1872. One of several medals designed by the sculptor J. Tautenhayn, to be given to exhibitors at '...the Great Exhibition of Arts and Industry to be held at Vienna next year,...by the Austrian Imperial Commission. On the reverse sides are the different groups of allegorical figures, or impersonations, which are conceived to patronise the works of skill respectively approved in distributing the several medals to each class of exhibitors. [This example is inscribed] "Dem Geschmack" (For Good Taste)...The inscription, "Welt-Aussteilung, 1873, Wien" (Vienna World - Exhibition, 1873), is repeated in each instance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A06_183

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

3,8Mo (244,2Ko) / 40,7cm x 40,4cm / 1153 x 1145 (72dpi)

Mots clés

Germany female women woman people event German arts country art British souvenir prize location century Britain newspapers press print taste memento exhibition medal medals B&W tasteful engraved engraving exposition allegory 19th century black & white black and white B W allegorical allegorical figures allegorical figure nineteenth century World Fair The Print Collector artistic school cultural event Illustrated London News wood engraving World's Fair ILN newspaper Unknown tastefulness 19th-century The Illustrated London News 1873 Vienna World's Fair Josef Tautenhayn Tautenhayn Josef Josef Tautenhayn the elder Tautenhayn Josef the elder