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 №

251753

Obverse

PETRVS ALEXII FIL. D.G. RVSS. IMP. M. DVX MOSCOVIAE.
Bust of Tsar Peter I facing right (M3)
Signed: M (Muller)

Reverse

TORMENTO PONDERIS ACTI PRAECIPITAT. VIRG.*
Plan of Narva - city and fortress
In exergue: NARVA EXPVGNATA/ D.9 AVG.S.V.

Comments

* Verg. Aen. XI, 615-617:
...excussus Aconteus
Fulminis in morem aut tormento ponderis acti
Praecipitat longe et itam dispergit in auras.

Notes

Plan of Narva on the reverse reproduced engraving by J.Keiser (Piskunova 1950, no.64)F

Literature

Zavorotnaya 1988 (№ 31); Shchukina 2006 (№ 45); Russian Victories 2009, 249

Keywords

PLAN OF CAPTURE OF NARVA, AUGUST 13, 1704

Author

Kayser (Keyser) Jacob

Size

487x578; 526x635

Provenance

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

Inventory №

Гр-6543