Medal commemorating Saint Brendan, Discoverer

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

Title

Medal commemorating Saint Brendan, Discoverer

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

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c. 1869

Medium

Bronze, with patina of bronze doré

Inscriptions

inscribed: Beatus Brendanus Develator Americae Priscus/A.D. DLXV on reverse: O Ye Toilsome/O Ever Weary Life/Expecting This Land/Stay A Little Now/From Your Labor Signed on reverse: Mowbray-Clarke

Dimensions

Diam.: 6.8 cm (2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Blewett Lee

Reference Number

1912.1527

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