Bidspirit auction | Caqué & Durand - Luigi

Caqué & Durand - Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) Italian physician, physiologist and physicist - Signed: ”CAQUÉ - FECIT -” Bronze; diam.: 41 mm; 37 gr. LUDOVICUS. GALVANI / CAQUÉ · FECIT · (front). NATUS / BONONIAE / IN ITALIA / AN.M.DCC.XXXVII. / OBIIT / AN.M.DCC.XCVIII. / SERIES NUMISMATICA / UNIVERSALIS VIRORUM ILLUSTRIUM / M.DCCC.XXIII. / DURAND EDIDIT (back). The effigy depicted is of Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), Italian physician, physiologist and physicist, who deciphered the electrical nature of galvanisation by working in electrochemical engineering. Work produced by the medallist Armand-Auguste Caqué (1795-1881) under the edition of Pierre-Amédée Durand (1789-1873).