DURAND, AMÉDÉE (French). Medallist, and Editor of Medals of the first half of the nineteenth century. He brought out the " Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium" between 1818 and 1846, and appears to have modelled or engraved the following medals : Coronation of George IV., 1820; — Death of George IV., 1830; — both signed DURAND F. — and Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820; — Lord Exmouth created Viscount after his bombardment of Algiers, 1816, signed A.D. The medals edited by him bear the signature DURAND EDIDIT. Durand resided in Paris, and died about the year 1848. His Medallic Series comprises Illustrious Men of all countries, and amongst those medals which are of special interest to English collectors I may mention the following: Roger Bacon ; — Henry VIII. ; — Shakespeare ; — Francis Bacon ; — Sir Antony Van Dyck ; — William Harvey ; — Cromwell ; - John Milton ; — Thomas Sydenham ; — William III. ; — John Locke ; — William Penn ; — Joseph Addison ; — Sir Isaac Newton ; — William Congreve ; — Alexander Pope; — Händel, &c. Durand had obtained the first Grand Prix for medal-engraving. He is also the author of a marble statue of Sappho, and of a basrelief, Naval Architecture. He was Pensionnaire of the French Academy at Rome in 1810. In March 1816, he went to London, where by means of a press borrowed from a button manufacturer, he struck proofs of a medal commemorating the Embarkation of Napoleon at Rochefort, 8. July 1815. The following artists have worked for Durand : Binfield, Barre, Caqué, Caunois, Gayrard, Henrionnet, Moltedo, Petit, Peuvrier, Rogat, Th. Smith, Vivier, Wolf, &c. Bibliography. — Dr F. P. Weber, op. cit. — Franks and Grueber, op. cit. — Chavignerie et Auvray, op. cit.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
DOBICHT
DOBICHT (Germ.). Bookbinder, then Die-sinker at Neuwied, in the service of the Counts of Wied-Neuwied, 1750-1756. His name occurs again in 1780. The medals by this attist mostly refer to the history of Kurfürst Johann Philipp of Treves; he is also the author of a Marriage medal of Count Philipp von der Lippe, 1780. I have seen his signature, D., on a medal of Charles William Frederick of Brandenburg, 1750. — Mining Thaler of same year. — Medal of Count Wied, 1752, &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal,...
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DOBICHT (Germ.). Bookbinder, then Die-sinker at Neuwied, in the service of the Counts of Wied-Neuwied, 1750-1756. His name occurs again in 1780. The medals by this attist mostly refer to the history of Kurfürst Johann Philipp of Treves; he is also the author of a Marriage medal of Count Philipp von der Lippe, 1780. I have seen his signature, D., on a medal of Charles William Frederick of Brandenburg, 1750. — Mining Thaler of same year. — Medal of Count Wied, 1752, &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal,...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND
DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). A Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth century. He engraved a number of medals, and also some of the artistic Thalers of Nuremberg, on which the Rathhaus is depicted. In the Reimmann sale there was a specimen of this coin bearing the letters P. H. M., initials of the engraver Philipp Heinrich Müller, who apparently also cut dies for the same coinage. Dodder, the elder, was still living in 1688, as we learn from contemporary documents. Bibliography. ...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). A Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth century. He engraved a number of medals, and also some of the artistic Thalers of Nuremberg, on which the Rathhaus is depicted. In the Reimmann sale there was a specimen of this coin bearing the letters P. H. M., initials of the engraver Philipp Heinrich Müller, who apparently also cut dies for the same coinage. Dodder, the elder, was still living in 1688, as we learn from contemporary documents. Bibliography. ...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (2.)
DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). Son of the last ; also a Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth, centuries. He died after 1730, as coins exist of that year, engraved by him, commemorating the centenary of the Augsburg Confession. There is a coronation medal of Charles VI., 1711, by him, and a commemorative piece of the canonization of Johann Nepomuk, 1729-1736. The former is signed S. D. S. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Ad. Hess Nachf., Reimm...
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DOCKLER, DANIEL SIEGMUND (Germ.). Son of the last ; also a Nuremberg Medallist of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth, centuries. He died after 1730, as coins exist of that year, engraved by him, commemorating the centenary of the Augsburg Confession. There is a coronation medal of Charles VI., 1711, by him, and a commemorative piece of the canonization of Johann Nepomuk, 1729-1736. The former is signed S. D. S. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Ad. Hess Nachf., Reimm...
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DOEDALSES
DOEDALSES (Greek). Sculptor of Nicomedia, circa B.C. 228. The reverse type of the tetradrachms of Prusias I. of Bithynia is evidently copied from the celebrated statue of Zeus Stratios by this artist, which stood in the principal temple of Jupiter at Nicomedia. This figure of Zeus does not occur on the coins of Nicomedes I., the founder of the Bithynian dynasty, nor on the unique tetradrachm of his son and successor, Ridas, but appears on the currency, from Prusias I. to Nicomedes III., on whose...
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DOEDALSES (Greek). Sculptor of Nicomedia, circa B.C. 228. The reverse type of the tetradrachms of Prusias I. of Bithynia is evidently copied from the celebrated statue of Zeus Stratios by this artist, which stood in the principal temple of Jupiter at Nicomedia. This figure of Zeus does not occur on the coins of Nicomedes I., the founder of the Bithynian dynasty, nor on the unique tetradrachm of his son and successor, Ridas, but appears on the currency, from Prusias I. to Nicomedes III., on whose...
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