medal

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Object Type
Museum number: 1981,0724.7
Description: Rectangular struck silver medal. (whole); Portrait of Lannelongue, head and shoulders, in profile to left, wearing the Légion d'Honneur and other decorations. (obverse); Medicine to right, as a woman wearing a long apron and holding an instrument in her left hand, attends to patients, laying her right hand on the head of a child wrapped in a shawl in its mother's arms, to left, next to a seated workman wearing an apron, his arm in a sling, his hat under the chair; receptacles on a wall shelf to left. (reverse)
Producer name: Designed by: Jules Clément Chaplain; Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine: Jules Clément Chaplain; Made by: Monnaie de Paris
Production date: 1901
Production place: Made in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 70 millimetres; Width: 56 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For a version of this medal in bronze, see 1982,0921.14.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: doctor; ill-health/injury; medicine/health; allegory/personification; patient
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1981
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1981,0724.7

Free entry