Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 65r
Additional Source Text:
"Legend Anna Dei Gr. Mag. Br. Fr. et Hib. regina. reverse a town besieged, legend, vires animumque ministrat. exergue Captis. Colonia trajana venloa, ruremunda, Stephano verda, leodio MDCCII."
Notes:
Herbert Appold Grueber, A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals (London, 1891), p. 89, attributes the piece to Jan Boskam, while the British Museum identifies the maker as John Croker (1670-1741).
In 1702, during the War of Spanish Succession against the French, General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), in a very short time captured Kaiserwerth, Venloo, Ruremonde, Stevenswart, and Liège.
