Benedict XIV, Completion of the Memorial to Queen Clementina
Benedict XIV, Completion of the Memorial to Queen Clementina, bronze medal, , 1742, by O. Hammerani, bust of Pope Benedict XIV profile right, rev. Clementina’s monument at St. Peter’s Rome, MEMORIAE. M. CLEM. M. BRIT. REGINAE (TO THE MEMORY OF MARIA CLEMENTINA QUEEN OF ENGLAND), 35 mm (MI 570/204; Woolf 45/2). About extremely fine. £Sold
Clementina Sobieska died in Rome 18th January 1735, aged 33. Clement XII who had held her in high esteem ordered a monument to be erected in St. Peter’s. However, it was not completed until 1742 by which time he had died. His successor ordered this medal to be struck.
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