This medal was designed by Rudolf Bosselt and depicts a man wrestling with an octopus. The reverse shows a representation of the city of Hamburg with a lion on either side. At the bottom is the inscription: ‘Für Rettung aus Gefahr’.
| Artist |
Rudolf Bosselt
Wikidata
RKD
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| Title | Medal for services rendered during the cholera outbreak in Hamburg in 1892 |
| Date | 1892 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Hamburg TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) on the front side: R. BOSSELT |
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| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type | art medal |
| Inventory number | 1911-X |
| Acquisition credit | gift |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-X |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11939/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F72(OCTOPUS)
molluscs: octopus
Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 61E(HAMBURG) names of cities and villages (HAMBURG) Iconclass |
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