Publicity Plaque Medal: The Miner (so-called Taymans plaque)

Public Domain

Artist / maker

Constantin Meunier (medalists)

Date

1904

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The coal merchant Édouard Taymans ordered this plaque for his customers in 1904 from Constantin Meunier. A miner is depicted with a helmet and pickaxe, in the background a mountain of coal and a smoking chimney appear. Numerous examples of this relief were made in earthenware, plaster and bronze. The workshop is unknown.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker Constantin Meunier VIAF RKD Wikidata
Types plaques (flat objects) AAT, gypsum AAT, gypsum AAT
Category medals
Material gypsum
Dimensions 17.5 x 22.8 cm
Object number 1910-W-1
Description
Subject figures (representations)
Tags miner Iconclass, helmet Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1910-W-1
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7587/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1910-W-1
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