'Industria + Fortitudo', a gilt bronze plaque cast from a model by Heinrich Kautsch, of shaped rectangular design cast in relief on one side with a youth holding laurel wreath seated beneath a winged female figure, overlooking a faint industrial scene, above inscribed title, signed in the bronze -- 25cm. high; and a silvered bronze medal of Heinrich Heine cast from a model by Heinrich Kautsch

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'Industria + Fortitudo', a gilt bronze plaque cast from a model by Heinrich Kautsch, of shaped rectangular design cast in relief on one side with a youth holding laurel wreath seated beneath a winged female figure, overlooking a faint industrial scene, above inscribed title, signed in the bronze -- 25cm. high; and a silvered bronze medal of Heinrich Heine cast from a model by Heinrich Kautsch
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C.f. Mark Jones, The Art of the Medal (London 1979), p.131

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