MOSSMANN, WALTER (Brit.). Mint-warden at Edinburgh, 1559.
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
MITCHELL, F. N.
MITCHELL, F. N. (Amer.). Sculptor, and Medallist, of the middle years of the nineteenth century; worked at Boston. By him are the following medals : General Dr Joseph Warren, of Boston (4 var.) ; — United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va (or Portsmouth Yellow Fever medal); — Medal of the United States Agricultural Society, 1852; — Medal of the Maine Agricultural Society ;— Medal of the Sandwich Islands Agricultural Society ; — Medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association; — ...
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MITCHELL, F. N. (Amer.). Sculptor, and Medallist, of the middle years of the nineteenth century; worked at Boston. By him are the following medals : General Dr Joseph Warren, of Boston (4 var.) ; — United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va (or Portsmouth Yellow Fever medal); — Medal of the United States Agricultural Society, 1852; — Medal of the Maine Agricultural Society ;— Medal of the Sandwich Islands Agricultural Society ; — Medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association; — ...
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MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG
MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG (Austr.). Mintmaster at Vienna, circ. 1679-1705 (?); died. 22. December 1708. His initials occur on the coins issued by him, which were all engraved by the Mint-engraver, Johann Michael Hoffmann. Among these are the two commemorative Thalers of the Siege of Vienna, 1683, Double Ducat of 1682, Ducats of 1683-84, Quarter Ducat, 1694, Thalers and Sechsers, &c. A Thaler of Prince Ferdinand Wilhelm Euseb of Schwarzenberg, and consort Maria Anna, 1696, of which se...
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MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG (Austr.). Mintmaster at Vienna, circ. 1679-1705 (?); died. 22. December 1708. His initials occur on the coins issued by him, which were all engraved by the Mint-engraver, Johann Michael Hoffmann. Among these are the two commemorative Thalers of the Siege of Vienna, 1683, Double Ducat of 1682, Ducats of 1683-84, Quarter Ducat, 1694, Thalers and Sechsers, &c. A Thaler of Prince Ferdinand Wilhelm Euseb of Schwarzenberg, and consort Maria Anna, 1696, of which se...
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MNESARCHOS
MNESARCHOS (Greek). Son of Euphron or Euthyphron, and named as the father of Pythagoras. He is said to have been an Engraver of rings. According to some accounts, he was not of purely Greek origin, and may have belonged to the Tyrrhenians of Lemnos and Imbros. He died at the beginning of the tyranny of Polycrates, towards the middle of the sixth century B.C. (Diog. Laërt., VIII, 1). He cultivated the art of gem-engraving more for glory than for gain. Bibliography. — Babelon, op. cit. — King, op....
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MNESARCHOS (Greek). Son of Euphron or Euthyphron, and named as the father of Pythagoras. He is said to have been an Engraver of rings. According to some accounts, he was not of purely Greek origin, and may have belonged to the Tyrrhenians of Lemnos and Imbros. He died at the beginning of the tyranny of Polycrates, towards the middle of the sixth century B.C. (Diog. Laërt., VIII, 1). He cultivated the art of gem-engraving more for glory than for gain. Bibliography. — Babelon, op. cit. — King, op....
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MOCCHI, FRANCESCO
MOCCHI, FRANCESCO (ltal.). Sculptor and Medallist of the first half of the seventeenth century, who resided at Florence, and died there in 1646. One of his best known medallic productions is a Portrait-piece of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, with a representation on R. of his equestrian statue. Heiss ascribes to this artist a Portrait-medal of Pope Clement VIII., signed F. M. F.on obv. ; R. GREGEM.NE.DESERAS. Pope kneeling to r. (Vide vol. II, p. 116.) Isolated medals, says von Fabriczy, hav...
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MOCCHI, FRANCESCO (ltal.). Sculptor and Medallist of the first half of the seventeenth century, who resided at Florence, and died there in 1646. One of his best known medallic productions is a Portrait-piece of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, with a representation on R. of his equestrian statue. Heiss ascribes to this artist a Portrait-medal of Pope Clement VIII., signed F. M. F.on obv. ; R. GREGEM.NE.DESERAS. Pope kneeling to r. (Vide vol. II, p. 116.) Isolated medals, says von Fabriczy, hav...
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