Object details
Accession number
M33n21
Creators
Full title
Medal of Mary I of England (1516-1558)
Creation Date
1554
Provenance
Gift from the merchant Horatio Greenough Curtis (1844–1922) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 26 April 1920.
Marks
Inscribed (obverse): MARIA. I. REG. ANGL. FRANC. ET. HIB. FIDEI. DEFENSATRIX
Inscribed (reverse): CECIS VISVS TIMIDIS. QVIES
Dimensions
6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Display Media
Bronze
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Vatichino
Bibliography
Stephen K. Scher. Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance (New York, 1994), pp.158-160, no. 54.
Philip Attwood. Italian Medals, c. 1530-1600, in British Public Collections. Vol. 1 (London, 2003), pp.119-120, no. 80.
John Graham Pollard. Renaissance Medals. Volume one: Italy. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2007), p. 506, no. 504.
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