Medal of Appreciation

Wenzel Seidan

1860

Medal depicting two figures on either side of a set of tablets and small portrait of man in center.
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

Creator Bio

Wenzel Seidan

Wenzel Seidan, a Czech medalist and engraver, studied at the fine art academies of Prague and Vienna, ultimately settling in the Austrian capital after also working in Italy and France.

You may also like

Jar with one visible handle with painting of five people with raised forearms.
Tooltip info icon

A Procession

In this detail from a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, five people stand with raised forearms (their hands are not depicted). As raised hands usually signify praying, the scene may represent…
View Source
Beginning of scroll with Hebrew text arranged in columned archways and decorated figures above and beside each column.
Tooltip info icon

Esther Scroll

The book of Esther is chanted aloud from a scroll (megillah) on the holiday of Purim. This example from the Netherlands is lavishly decorated, with the Hebrew text framed by arcades between which are…
View Source

Writ of Appointment as Torah Teacher

When the heads of the holy nation were assembled together—the holy communities here in the village of Magnesia—and they saw that the power of the testimony was dissipated and there was none remaining…
View Source