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Medal - Crafts - The Surgeon
| Location | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Technique | Milled (high relief) |
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| Obverse description | High-relief depiction of a 17th-century surgical scene in an interior setting, struck after an etching by Jan Luyken and his son Caspar (first published 1694). A surgeon kneels over a seated patient, attending to a wound on the patient's leg, while two attendant figures observe in the background. Surgical instruments are visible on the floor in the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows the medal displayed within a fitted wooden presentation box lined with red velvet, alongside eleven other medallions from the same series, each depicting a different 17th-century Dutch craft or profession after etchings by Jan and Caspar Luyken. |
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