Thomason Medallic Bible 19: Jacob Blesses Sons On His Death Bed Franklin Mint

Description: This listing is for the one medal listed in the item title. There is no case or accompanying paperwork included. The medal was minted proof-like by the Franklin Mint in 1970. Medal has some toning, dust, etc. - normal wear for 40 year old medal. The Thomason Medallic Bible Medal Series (Medal Number, Obverse Legend, Inspired By) 1: ADAM GAVE NAMES TO EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD AND FOWL OF THE AIR Paolo Veronese 2: EVE PRESENTING THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT TO ADAM Domenichino 3: THE EXPULSION OF ADAM AND EVE FROM PARADISE Guido 4: CAIN SLAYING HIS BROTHER ABEL Domenichino 5: ENOCH CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN Paolo Veronese 6: NOAHS ARK FLOATING UPON THE WATERS Bandinelli 7: NOAH BUILDETH AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD AND OFFERETH SACRIFICE Poussin 8: THE TOWER OF BABLE IN THE LAND OF SHINAH Bandinelli 9: LOT PARTING FROM ABRAHAM TO DWELL IN THE PLAIN OF JORDAN Titian 10: LOT AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS ON THEIR JOURNEY FROM SODOM TO ZOAR Rubens 11: ABRAHAM OFFERING HIS SON ISAAC FOR A SACRIFICE Carracci 12: REBEKAH DRAWING WATER FOR ABRAHAMS CAMELS Poussin 13: ABRAHAM BURIED IN THE CAVE OF MACPHELAH BY HIS SONS Rembrandt 14: ISAAC BLESSING JACOB INSTEAD OF ESAU Titian 15: RECONCILIATION BETWEEN JACOB AND HIS BROTHER ESAU Titian 16: JOSEPHS BRETHEREN SELLING HIM TO THE ISHMAELITE MERCHANTS Guido 17: THE INTERPRETATION OF KING PHARAOHS TWO DREAMS BY JOSEPH Guido 18: JOSEPH MAKETH HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHEREN Murillo 19: JACOB ON HIS DEATH BED CALLING TOGETHER HIS SONS & BLESSING THEM Rembrandt 20: MOSES DISCOVERED & PRESERVED BY THE DAUGHTER OF KING PHARAOH Poussin 21: THE ROD OF MOSES MIRACULOUSLY CHANGED INTO A SERPENT Salvator Rosa 22: THE FIRST BORN SLAIN THROUGHOUT THE LAND OF EGYPT Michelangelo 23: PHARAOH AND HIS HOST DROWNED IN THE RED SEA Michelangelo 24: AND MOSES SMOTE THE ROCK AND IT GUSH’D OUT WATER Murillo 25: MOSES DESCENDING FROM THE MOUNT & FINDING THE ISRAELITES WORSHIPING THE MOLTEN CALF Raphael 26: THE ARK OF THE COVENANT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE THE BRAZEN LAVER Bandinelli 27: MOSES’S BRAZEN SERPENT Rembrandt 28: BALAAM SMITING HIS ASS WHO SPEAKETH BEFORE THE ANGEL Carracci 29: THE SACRIFICE OF THE RED HEIFER BY ELEAZAR Van Dyck 30: JOSHUA DIVIDING THE WATERS OF THE RIVER JORDAN Rembrandt 31: JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN TO STAND STILL Rembrandt 32: CHART OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL’S TRAVELS FROM EGYPT Thomason 33: JAEL DRIVING THE NAIL THROUGH THE HEAD OF SISERA Carracci 34: FULFILMENT OF JEPHTHAHS RASH VOW Carracci 35: SAMSON KILLING THE LION ON HIS JOURNEY TO TIMNATH Le Brun 36: SAMSON CARRYING AWAY THE GATES OF GAZA Le Brun 37: DAVID CUTTING OFF THE HEAD OF GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE Michelangelo 38: SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR Salvator Rosa 39: ABSALOM SLAIN BY JOAB IN THE WOOD OF EPHRAIM Carracci 40: SOLOMON’S TEMPLE Bandinelli 41: SOLOMON’S JUDGMENT Carlo Dolci 42: JEROBOHAM ORDERING THE MAN OF GOD TO BE SEIZ’D Correggio 43: ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS AT THE BROOK CHERITH Paolo Veronese 44: ELIJAH CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN IN THE PRESENCE OF ELISHA Raphael 45: THE SHUNAMITE’S SON RESTORED TO LIFE ON THE PRAYER OF ELISHA Murillo 46: JONAH DELIVER’D FROM THE WHALE Leonardo daVinci 47: SENNACHERIBS OVERTHROW BY THE ANGEL 185,000 SMOTE IN THE CAMP Michelangelo 48: SHADRACH MESHACK AND ABEDNEGO IN THE FIREY FURNACE Carlo Maratta 49: JOB IN DISTRESS REBUKING HIS WIFE Leonardo daVinci 50: THE DIVINE PSALMIST Van Dyck 51: DANIEL IN THE DEN OF LIONS Raphael 52: JULIUS CAESAR MURDERED IN THE SENATE HOUSE AT ROME Correggio 53: THE ADORATION OF THE WISE MEN Rubens 54: JOSEPH’S FLIGHT INTO EGYPT Rubens 55: JOHN BAPTIZING CHRIST IN JORDAN Poussin 56: CHRIST RAISING LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD Murillo 57: CHRIST INSTITUTING HIS LAST SUPPER Leonardo daVinci 58: CHRIST’S AGONY IN THE GARDEN Carlo Dolci 59: THE CRUCIFIXION Rubens 60: THE ASCENSION Correggio The Thomason Medallic Bible Medal Series By John Sallay The Thomason Medallic Bible is a set of sixty medals struck in 1830 that captures the essence of the entire Holy Bible in medallic art. The obverse designs were inspired by the works of well-known Renaissance artists and executed by several different engravers. The reverse of each medal contains a dense text quotation or explanation describing the topic of each medal. The set was produced in Birmingham, England by Sir Edward Thomason, who felt divinely inspired to “promote the glory of God by impressing the Word of God upon gold, silver and other indestructible metals”. In 1970, the Franklin Mint issued a small-format recreation from newly engraved dies, with much simplified text. While the original Thomason medals were struck in gilt copper and white metal with a diameter of 73mm, the Franklin Mint Version medals were struck in bronze with a diameter of 44mm. They were sold in a custom binder, with a description from Sir Edward Thomason’s Memoirs During Half a Century quoted on the inside front cover: "It appeared to me, in 1827, that I might, through God’s assistance, become a humble instrument to effect a unique and novel medallic work to further and promote the glory of God, by impressing the Word of God upon gold, silver and other indestructible metals, with emblematical and symbolical designs, and with a short condensed explanation on the reverses of the medals, and thereby be the first author of a Medallic Bible. In this feeling my heart rejoiced, my soul was willing, but my flesh was weak, and I prayed unto the Lord to give me grace and strength of mind to accomplish so arduous an undertaking. I first applied myself in reading over the sacred volume of the Bible, the authority of which is received by inspiration from God, and universally admitted. I found, after taking down copious notes, that I should be unable, by the most condensed arrangements, to produce a tolerably continuous , or even contracted, development under less number than sixty of the largest size medals, each being three inches in diameter, the obverses of which to contain the historical devices, and the reverses filled with lettered explanation; and it was also essential for my purpose that the historical pieces should be obtained from the pictures of the Ancient Masters. I did not despair in accomplishing this apparent difficulty in obtaining copies for my artists to work from, because I held at this period the appointment of eight consulships from foreign governments, which gave me facility to procure copies of such pictures from the Continent which I might not conveniently find in England."

Price: 8.05 USD

Location: Gooding, Idaho

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