Medal - Declaration of the Congress of Vienna ND

Reverse

Mercury hovering in the air to left above the terrestrial hemisphere (a map of northern Europe), carrying a scroll inscribed TO ARMS in outstretched left arm, and holding winged caduceus in lowered right arm

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DECLARATION · OF THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA
XIII MARCH.
J. MUDIE DIREX.
DEP. F.
TO ARMS

Translation: De Paulis fecit = De Paulis made me

Engraver: Alexis-Joseph Depaulis

Comment

Catalogues: Bramsen 1597; d'Essling 1559; BHM 869; Mudie Series No.32; Eimer 1064. Also made in bronze.
British Historical Medals - 869 - Flight of Napoleon from Elba.
 There were 40 medals in the 'SERIES OF MEDALS OF BRITISH VICTORIES' which were commissioned by James Mudie as a private venture in London in 1820. They were housed in two removable cream velvet covered trays, each tray having a housing for 20 medals, and each medal location being provided with a silk lifting ribbon and a number relating to the number of the medal. They were located in a library case.
 James Mudie commissioned the forty medals to be produced by the leading medallists in Britain and other European countries. Each 41mm in diameter, struck at Thomason's factory in Birmingham.

 Having spent nine months on Elba and being constantly informed of events in France and Italy, Napoleon left the island on the night of 26th February 1815; he landed near Antibes at the head of 1,000 men and marched for Paris.
 Obverse: The Flight of Napoleon from Elba is here emblematically expressed by an eagle with a thunder-bolt, advancing to the French coast from the isle of Elba. The broken-down doors of the temple of Janus shadow out the rupture of the general Peace consequent on Bonaparte's flight. The date of this flight is on the exergue.
 Reverse: Mercury (the fabled Messsenger of the Gods) is carrying an account of the event throughout Europe, with an invitation, "TO ARMS."

 The set of 40 medals are:
01: George III Dedication ~ 1817
02: Settlement of the British at Bombay 1602; East India Co's Victory over the French ~ 1804
03: Naval Victory of the 1st of June ~ 1794
04: Battle of Cape St. Vincent ~ 1797 [link below]
05: Battle of Camperdown ~ 1797
06: Horatio Nelson Memorial ~ 1805
07: Defence of Acre ~ 1799
08: Arrival of the English Army in Egypt ~ 1801
09: Egypt Delivered ~ 1801
10: Victory Honours of Scottish Regiments ~ 1815
11: Royal Military College; Presentation of Colours ~ 1813
12: English Army Arrives in the Peninsula ~ 1808 [link below]
13: Battle of Vimiera; English Army enters Lisbon ~ 1808 [link below]
14: Death of Sir John Moore ~ 1809
15: Passage of the Douro ~ 1809 [link below]
16: Battle of Talavera ~ 1809
17: English Army on the Tagus ~ 1810-1811
18: Battle of Albuera ~ 1811
19: Capture of Badajoz ~ 1812
20: Battle of Almarez ~ 1812
21: Battle of Salamanca; British Army enters Madrid ~ 1812 [link below]
22: Battle of Vitoria ~ 1813
23: Battle of the Pyrenees ~ 1813
24: Battle of San Sebastian ~ 1813 [link below]
25: Surrender of Pamplona ~ 1813
26: Battle of Toulouse ~ 1814
27: Peace in Europe ~ 1814
28: England gives Peace to the World ~ 1814
29: Treaties of Paris ~ 1814
30: Visit of the Allied Sovereigns to England ~ 1814
31: English Army re-enters Hanover ~ 1814
32: Flight of Napoleon from Elba; Declaration of the congress of Vienna ~ 1815 [this medal]
33: British Army in The Netherlands ~ 1815 [link below]
34: Charge of the British at Waterloo ~ 1815
35: Battle of Waterloo ~ 1815
36: British Army enters Paris ~ 1815
37: Surrender of Napoleon ~ 1815 [link below]
38: Napoleon on St. Helena ~ 1815
39: Admiral Lord Exmouth ~ 1816
40: Constitution given to the Ionian Islands ~ 1817

 A list of an auction lot which had all 40 medals in copper. Plus 15 pictures, of mainly reverses.


 A link showing both sides of all 40 medals.
http://www.historicalmedals.com/mudie.htm