COLLECTION NAME:
Napoleonic Medallions
Record
Filename:
NM4222024016.JPG
Title:
National Medals, Series of Medals on British Victories
Alternative Title:
The Battles of The Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar
Creator:
James Mudie
Contributor:
Jean Pierre Droz
Subject:
British History
Subject:
French Revolutionary Wars
Subject:
British Victories
Description:
This bronze medal commemorates the British victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar. The reverse pictures a female warrior, symbolic of the victorious British entity, dressed in traditional Greco-Roman clothing. In her left hand she holds a trident and, in her right, she holds something like a lightning rod. She stands on a small boat with a lion’s head sculpted on the bow.
Publisher:
James Mudie
Date:
1798-1805
Coverage:
Battle of The Nile
Coverage:
Battle of Copenhagen
Coverage:
Battle of Trafalgar
Genre/Form:
Medal
Source:
James Smith Noel Collection
Source:
Isabella Romanski
Language:
English
Rights:
This image may be used without charge for non-commercial web sites under the condition that the sites or pages on which images appear properly identify William N. Gray as a creator, and provide a link back to the home page of the Noel Collection. please request permission to publish or distribute images from the Noel Collection Curator.
