1592984522000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141538 1747245968174 1711380511000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141538 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141538 6dde0174-90bb-3d2a-a699-a8ff3df03b3c 8 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-122711 adlib-term-122711 1db96904-a474-3b61-a8e5-6c2d9dd557ab Lester Watson Collection Coins and Medals The aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars left the reputation of the erstwhile Emperor in dudgeon for some years, but the return to power of his family in the person of Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, who was President of the Second Republic from 1849 and from 1852 Emperor Napoleon III, resulted in a rapid rehabilitation of his career. This also led to a feeling that the endeavours of Napoleon I's soldiers had not been publically recognised, and in 1857 therefore a commemorative medal was issued in Napoleon I's name for any man still living who could show that he had served in the Grande Armée between 1792 and 1815. Some 405,000 medals were issued, not just to Frenchmen but also to Belgians, Dutchmen, Danes and Irishmen to name but a few, but the medal's order's documentation was lost in a fire of the nineteenth century. As the medals were issued unnamed, this means that unless a personal history can be reconstructed using other documents, examples of the medal cannot be attributed to a particular recipient. An ongoing amateur research project is currently collecting material of this kind, but the example in the Watson Collection unfortunately has no such back-history. All that can be said is that Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928. CM.1444-2009 1 accession number CM.1444-2009 141538 priref 141538 Watson Catalogue 364 ordering M-0327 previous object number LW.0327 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141538 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141538 Bust of Napoleon I wreathed facing right, surrounded by laurel wreath and surmounted by crown which forms suspension obverse NAPOLEON I EMPEREUR design Inscription within laurel wreath around central inscription "A / SES / COMPAGNONS / DE GLOIRE / SA DERNIERE / PENSEE / St HELENE / 5 MAI / 1824" reverse design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 reference agent-206432 adlib-agent-206432 e0b1da8e-f9e4-30be-9257-f82c89d45afb Watson, Lester 2009 2009 2009 given on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum 2005-2009 1857 1857 1857 mint reference agent-158722 adlib-agent-158722 1cffff36-4957-3dbb-9b48-c4d5b506440a Paris struck in the name of ruler reference agent-176193 adlib-agent-176193 728469ed-8833-3553-8b5e-60ddde9be919 Napoléon I (1804-14) die-engraver reference agent-7579 adlib-agent-7579 94e7eff0-7819-3f9c-805f-891598617347 Barre, Albert-Désiré struck in the rule of ruler reference agent-153729 adlib-agent-153729 96be19f4-fb2b-307e-b13f-1bfb98cb782b Napoleon III (1852-70) mint reference agent-190888 adlib-agent-190888 eb8cafff-8703-3b36-9b93-c33742cb7e89 Colmar, Paris reference term-130759 adlib-term-130759 f9058fb6-5239-3190-97d0-62a0faac8f72 Colmar reference term-40365 adlib-term-40365 d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005 bronze Diameter mm 31.4 Weight g 31.57 reference media-116627 adlib-media-116627 00859682-4a3c-3417-8ad6-bcd467e531d8 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 148 1742589829284 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 148 1742589829284 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 148 1742589829284 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 148 1742589829284 1 image 0 media image reference media-116628 adlib-media-116628 a166546f-2737-3adc-904b-b4f95c97335c jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589831364 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589831364 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589831364 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0327_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589831364 1 image 1 media image reference term-123063 adlib-term-123063 4f113ce0-bde5-385f-a936-961dac6b366d Médaille de Sainte-Hélène denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-108659 adlib-term-108659 cc732dec-4543-389e-a737-cf22bb7d2ee2 Military subseries reference term-120306 adlib-term-120306 4c444129-3d8c-340f-bfbd-b4d82e5cbd17 France subsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 80-82 reference publication-5894 adlib-publication-5894 3c9fff39-4ab7-3e05-83ba-0f9441ec5525 French Orders and Decorations reference publication-5910 adlib-publication-5910 0d1d8526-5493-32bd-93b4-acd4cdcec7f9 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)

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