Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 47r
Additional Source Text:
"One of the Lot of the Kings of England the work of Jean Dassier of Geneva."
Notes:
Jean Dassier (1676–1763), Richard II medal (1731–1732)
Richard II (1367-1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.
"This medal of Richard II belongs to the English Monarchs series by the Swiss medalist Jean Dassier (1676–1763). Dassier was the
chief engraver of the Geneva mint, and the group to which this medal belongs (2014.457.1–10) are among his most important medallic works, part of a series of 33 medals of the English sovereigns begun during his second stay in London and approved by Queen Caroline. These medals represent an important European medalist in one of his most significant series. The English Monarchs are also important precedents for medal making in 18th- and 19th-century Britain." Metropolitan Museum
The donor may have been Samuel H. Sullivan, who served as deputy quartermaster general at Trenton until March 1778, and he later became quartermaster of Pulaski's Legion.
