Object type
Portrait Medals
Date
Production: 1725
Medallist
Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656 - 1740)
Subject(s)
Knights of Malta
Portraiture
Arms and Armour
Associated person
Subject: Antonio Manoel de Vilhena (1663 - 1736)
Associated activity
Commemoration
Inscriptions

obverse: F.D.AN.MANOEL DE.VILHENA.M.M. / MDCCXXV


reverse: TERRAQ.MARIQVE / FORTES.CREANTVR/FORTIBVS / MANOEL / ETERNITAS

Dimensions
Diameter: 97mm
Materials and technique
Bronze, cast
Production place
Rome
Italy
Related place(s)
Malta
References
Schembri, Canon H. Calleja. Coins and Medals of the Knights of Malta. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1908.
Pages 4 and 208

Fincham, Henry Walter. Catalogue of the Museum at St. Johns Gate. Unpublished, Museum of the Order of St John, 1915.

Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Page 159
Provenance
Previously of the Strickland Collection.

Purchased from Surgeon-Commander E.A.G. Wilkinson, 1924
Exhibition history
Antiques and Fine Art Fair, British Antiques Dealers Association, 25 March 2009-31 March 2009

The Order of St John in Malta with an exhibition of paintings by Mattia Preti, Painter and Knight, Museum of St John Co-Cathedral, 2 April 1970-1 July 1970
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of Captain Denis Shipwright, 1924

Photographed with the support of James Drabble MStJ and Clare Drabble, 2017
Catalogue number
1521
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