1947.5: Happy Are Those Whom Privacy Makes Innocent
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1947.5
- People
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Sidney Biehler Waugh, American (Amherst MA 1904 - 1963)
- Title
- Happy Are Those Whom Privacy Makes Innocent
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medal
- Date
- 1946
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229397
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 152.91 g, 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Obverse, lower center: SW
- inscription: Obverse: Happy are those whom privacy makes innocent. Reverse: To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. Around edge: The Society of Medalists Thirty-Fourth Issue, 1946, Sidney Waugh, Sc. Medallic Art Co., NY, bronze
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Society of Medalists, to; Fogg Art Museum, 1947.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Society of Medalists
- Accession Year
- 1947
- Object Number
- 1947.5
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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