Coins and Medals Department, Pushkin
Отдел Коллекция Проекты Научная работа отдела Библиотека События Партнеры Меценаты

Capture of Narva,
August 9 (20), 1704

Author

Müller/ Miller/ Myller Philipp Heinrich

Materials

silver

Weight

38,98 гр

Size

45 мм

Provenance

From the collection of Alexander Stakhovich, 1983

Inventory №

251748

Obverse

PETRVS ALEXIIFIL. D.G. RVSS. IMP. M. DVX MOSCOVIAE.
Bust of Tsar Peter I facing right (M1)
Signed: M (Muller)

Reverse

CECIDERE AB ORIGINE PRIMA. LVCERT.*
Siege of Narva under bombardment with overview of Ivan-city to left
In exergue: NARVA VI CAPTA/ 9. AVG. ST. V.

Comments

* Lucr. De rerum natura. V, 677-679:
...namque ubi sic fuerunt causarum exordia prima
atque ita res mundi cecidere ab origine prima,
conseque quoque iam redeunt ex ordine certo.

Notes

Scene of siege of Narva on the reverse reproduced engraving from "Book of Mars"

Literature

Zavorotnaya 1988 (№ 30); Russian Victories 2009, 240

Keywords

OVERVIEW AT SIEGE OF NARVA, AUGUST 13, 1704,
1715-1717

Print from the "Book of Mars" (2nd edition)

Author

Unknown engraver of the St.Peterburg printing-office

Size

524x662; 270x375

Provenance

Collection of D.A. Rovinsky (St Petersburg), Rumyantsev museum (1898), Pushkin museum (1924)

Inventory №

Гр-6291