Battle of Nieuwpoort
Also titled Slag bij Nieuwpoort
Gerard van Bylaer (Barneveld, ca. –1617)
1600
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- history medal
- Dimensions
- diameter 5.5 cm x weight 53.86 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
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
Commemorating Dutch liberty. Many medals were made to commemorate important events or people. The Dutch revolt against the Spanish king that began in 1568 and the ups and downs of the independent Dutch Republic, which existed from 1588, were ample reasons for striking medals.
