JOHANN JACOB HANDMANN. Medallist and Mintengraver at Basle, 1740-1769.
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
JEHOTTE, CONSTANT
JEHOTTE, CONSTANT (Belg.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, born at Liége on the 15th of January 1809 ; died on the 12th of April 1883. He studied drawing at the schools of his native city and learnt medal-engraving under his father Leonard Jéhotte. According to Picqué (Médailles historiques de Belgique), this artist executed 64 medals, ranging from 1847 to 1882. By him are the following works : The Suspension Bridge of Seraing, 1844; — Modeste Grétry, 1845; — Sébastien La Ruelle, 1846 ; — P...
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JEHOTTE, CONSTANT (Belg.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, born at Liége on the 15th of January 1809 ; died on the 12th of April 1883. He studied drawing at the schools of his native city and learnt medal-engraving under his father Leonard Jéhotte. According to Picqué (Médailles historiques de Belgique), this artist executed 64 medals, ranging from 1847 to 1882. By him are the following works : The Suspension Bridge of Seraing, 1844; — Modeste Grétry, 1845; — Sébastien La Ruelle, 1846 ; — P...
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JÉHOTTE, LÉONARD
JÉHOTTE, LÉONARD (Belg.). Medallist, born on the 1st August 1772 at Herstal, died at Maestricht, 1st August 1851. He was first apprenticed to a watchmaker, but before long it became evident that nature had endowed him with uncommon gifts for the plastic arts and that his career was laid out in a different direction. In 1784 or thereabout the young man was admitted into the Medallist Philippe Joseph Jacoby 's workshop as a pupil. So rapid was his progress that already in 1789, when only seventeen...
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JÉHOTTE, LÉONARD (Belg.). Medallist, born on the 1st August 1772 at Herstal, died at Maestricht, 1st August 1851. He was first apprenticed to a watchmaker, but before long it became evident that nature had endowed him with uncommon gifts for the plastic arts and that his career was laid out in a different direction. In 1784 or thereabout the young man was admitted into the Medallist Philippe Joseph Jacoby 's workshop as a pupil. So rapid was his progress that already in 1789, when only seventeen...
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JERBEAULT, J.
JERBEAULT, J. (French). Die-sinker of the latter portion of the eighteenth century ; he was a native of Bordeaux and engraved a pattern coin (1791) which was struck by means of a machine invented by him : Obv. LA NATION | LA LOI | LE ROI within oak-wreath R. Inscription in seven lines under Cap of Liberty : J. JERBEAULT. l INVENTEUR D'UNE | MACHINE QUI | ACCÉLÉRE EXTRA- | ORDINAIREMENT | LEMONNOYAGE | DES ESPÉCES ; beneath, three lozenges. Hennin, Histoire numismatique dela Révolution francaise,...
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JERBEAULT, J. (French). Die-sinker of the latter portion of the eighteenth century ; he was a native of Bordeaux and engraved a pattern coin (1791) which was struck by means of a machine invented by him : Obv. LA NATION | LA LOI | LE ROI within oak-wreath R. Inscription in seven lines under Cap of Liberty : J. JERBEAULT. l INVENTEUR D'UNE | MACHINE QUI | ACCÉLÉRE EXTRA- | ORDINAIREMENT | LEMONNOYAGE | DES ESPÉCES ; beneath, three lozenges. Hennin, Histoire numismatique dela Révolution francaise,...
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JESSENSKY, ISAIAS VON JESSEN
JESSENSKY, ISAIAS VON JESSEN (Germ.). Born at Breslau, he undertook in 1614 to work the Mint of Troppau, in conjunction with Stenzel Aichhäuser ; two years later he contracted for the Mint of Vienna, was imprisoned in 1619 for dishonesty, acquitted the next year, and appointed Mint-master at Vienna, on the 5th of March 1639, a post which he retained until 1643. Jessensky's distinctive mark occurs on Groschen and Thalers of 1618; Thalers Half, and Quarter Thalers, and Ducats of 1619; also Half Th...
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JESSENSKY, ISAIAS VON JESSEN (Germ.). Born at Breslau, he undertook in 1614 to work the Mint of Troppau, in conjunction with Stenzel Aichhäuser ; two years later he contracted for the Mint of Vienna, was imprisoned in 1619 for dishonesty, acquitted the next year, and appointed Mint-master at Vienna, on the 5th of March 1639, a post which he retained until 1643. Jessensky's distinctive mark occurs on Groschen and Thalers of 1618; Thalers Half, and Quarter Thalers, and Ducats of 1619; also Half Th...
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