General Wedding Medal
Also titled Algemene huwelijkspenning
Pieter van Abeele (Middelburg, 1608–1684)
1655
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- marriage medal
- Dimensions
- diameter 7.5 cm x weight 61.23 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In the past, important events were graced with a medal, especially in well-to-do families. The occasion for this was usually a birth, wedding, or death. These medals not only remained in the family as a memento, but were also given to the guests at the baptism, wedding party, or funeral. Sometimes they were purely private in character, such as the gold medal a grandfather gave to his grandson.
