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Hollandsche Nijverheid
Hendrik de Heus (died na 1)
1808
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- award medal
- Dimensions
- diameter 6.5 cm x weight 2029 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Medal, awarded for contributions to Dutch industry to porcelain factory Dommer & Co. Silver, 1808. In 1806 France introduced an embargo on trade with Great Britain in an attempt to strangle the British economy. However, this measure, known as the Continental System, also had adverse effects for the continent. To support Holland's hard-pressed industries, Louis Napoleon introduced the first official national exhibitions, with prizes for the best achievers. These were the forerunners of the subsequent annual trade fairs.
