JEAN JOSEPH DO BOIS. French Medallist of the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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
ISLER, LUIGI
ISLER, LUIGI (Ital.). Roman Gem-engraver, who resided in London, towards the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. He is the author of the following gems : Portrait of a Parsee, cameo in sardonyx ; — Perseus with head of Medusa, cameo in sardonyx ; — Omphale dressed in the lion's skin, sardonyx of five strata ; — Achilles, translucent Oriental chalcedonyx (illustrated) ; — Chloe, carnelian coloured sardonyx (illustrated) ; — Judith, before she slew Holofernes, cameo in c...
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ISLER, LUIGI (Ital.). Roman Gem-engraver, who resided in London, towards the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. He is the author of the following gems : Portrait of a Parsee, cameo in sardonyx ; — Perseus with head of Medusa, cameo in sardonyx ; — Omphale dressed in the lion's skin, sardonyx of five strata ; — Achilles, translucent Oriental chalcedonyx (illustrated) ; — Chloe, carnelian coloured sardonyx (illustrated) ; — Judith, before she slew Holofernes, cameo in c...
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IWANOFF, TIMOTHEI
IWANOFF, TIMOTHEI (Russ.). Russian Medallist and Mint-engraver at St. Petersburg, born in 1729, died in 1802. He entered the Mint in 1745 as a pupil at the School for medal-engraving. The period of his activity extends between 1758 and 1800, and he may be called one of the foremost Medallists Russia has as yet produced. He cut most of the dies for the successive coinages of the Czarina Catherine II. , comprising Al. 10, 5, 2 and 1 Rouble pieces, Tchervonetz and Poltinas; AR. Roubles, Poltinas, ...
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IWANOFF, TIMOTHEI (Russ.). Russian Medallist and Mint-engraver at St. Petersburg, born in 1729, died in 1802. He entered the Mint in 1745 as a pupil at the School for medal-engraving. The period of his activity extends between 1758 and 1800, and he may be called one of the foremost Medallists Russia has as yet produced. He cut most of the dies for the successive coinages of the Czarina Catherine II. , comprising Al. 10, 5, 2 and 1 Rouble pieces, Tchervonetz and Poltinas; AR. Roubles, Poltinas, ...
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JACOB, HANS (3.)
JACOB, HANS or JAKOB (Germ.). Father of JOHANN HEINRICH JACOB. Mint-master at Dresden and Eisleben, circa 1618-1627, and before that at Saalfeld, 1612-1618. He died on January 24, 1635. Vide Friedensburg, Studien zur schlesischen Medaillenkunde, p. 59. In 1627, he placed the contract to work the Breslau Mint with his son and his brother-in-law Hans Ziesler. Whether Ammon, Sammlung etc., p. 29 in mentioning Hans Jakob as Mint-master at Anhalt, 1615-1618 is right, I have not been able to confirm. ...
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JACOB, HANS or JAKOB (Germ.). Father of JOHANN HEINRICH JACOB. Mint-master at Dresden and Eisleben, circa 1618-1627, and before that at Saalfeld, 1612-1618. He died on January 24, 1635. Vide Friedensburg, Studien zur schlesischen Medaillenkunde, p. 59. In 1627, he placed the contract to work the Breslau Mint with his son and his brother-in-law Hans Ziesler. Whether Ammon, Sammlung etc., p. 29 in mentioning Hans Jakob as Mint-master at Anhalt, 1615-1618 is right, I have not been able to confirm. ...
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JACOB, JOHANN HEINRICH
JACOB, JOHANN HEINRICH or HANS HEINRICH JACOB (Germ.). Son of Hans Jacob, the Dresden Mint-master. Between 17.. July 1627 and 1629, he worked the Breslau Mint in connection with his uncle Hans Ziesler. From 1629 to 1631 he was Mint-master at Sagan, in Wallenstein's service, on whose currency the monogram H X I occurs. He may have again been connected with the Breslau Mint, but a document of 1631 only names Ziesler. It is doubtful whether the initials H-I on a square Double Thaler of Archduke Cha...
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JACOB, JOHANN HEINRICH or HANS HEINRICH JACOB (Germ.). Son of Hans Jacob, the Dresden Mint-master. Between 17.. July 1627 and 1629, he worked the Breslau Mint in connection with his uncle Hans Ziesler. From 1629 to 1631 he was Mint-master at Sagan, in Wallenstein's service, on whose currency the monogram H X I occurs. He may have again been connected with the Breslau Mint, but a document of 1631 only names Ziesler. It is doubtful whether the initials H-I on a square Double Thaler of Archduke Cha...
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