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Konrad Lange (1809-1856) Medallion of Andreas Miaoulis, 1836
obverse: Portrait of Andreas Miaoulis
reverse: Miaoulis sets fire to the Turkish fleet
signed: Κ. ΛΑΓΓΕ (front side, bottom right)
inscribed: ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΜΙΑΟΥΛΗΣ – ΝΑΥΑΡΧΟΣ (front side) // ΙΔΟΥ ΕΓΩ ΕΠΙ ΣΕ ΦΑΡΑΩ • ΜΟΘΩΝΗ [sic] 1. ΜΑΙ. // 1825 (back side) bifacial bronze medallion, diameter 4.4 cm
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection, inv. n. 887
ONE OF THE SERIES OF 12 BRONZE MEDALS with elaborate figures and events of the Greek War of Independence published by Konrad Lange in 1836. The Bavarian engraver Lange came to Greece during Otto’s reign, in 1834, and worked at the Athens Mint until 1840. The recto has a portrait of Admiral Andreas Miaoulis in profile. In the verso, he is shown standing in the centre, on a boat, fleeing, holding lighted torches. According to the date given
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below (May 1, 1825), he is depicted in the Naval Bat- tle of Methoni, when, as commander of the Greek fleet, he attacked the ships of Ibrahim Pasha, under Kapoudan Pasha; with Georgios Politis and Pipinos, using two fireships, he burned a large frigate (left, in flames), a small ship, three corvettes, three more war- ships and three transport ships. The inscription ‘ΙΔΟΥ ΕΓΩ ΕΠΙ ΣΕ ΦΑΡΑΩ’ (Behold, I am against you, Pha- raoh) comes from the Book of Ezekiel (29:3).
Excerpt from a letter of Andreas Miaoulis to the commissioners of the islands (Psara, 3 June 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 15ab, no 11 [pp. 85-86] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
ADMIRAL MIAOULIS reports information arriving from an «imperial» (<ital. imperiale) ship that the fleet of Mehmet Ali Pasha intended to bypass Crete heading for Kassos, with the aim to join the Turkish fleet and together hit Psara and Samos. In another section, he comments that the
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French factory at Montereau
Janissaries are angry with the Sultan, because he wants to recruit them on the ships, but they «say that they are not for the ships, but for the land». Finally, he reports news about a Russian-Turkish confrontation, published in the Gazette of Napoli on 14 May.
Miaoulis captures a Turkish ship, ca. 1826-30
faience plate, diameter 21.8 cm
inscribed: MIAULIS PRENANT UN NAVIRE TURC. (low centre) CANARIS / FABVIER // MIAULIS / BYRON // BOTZARIS / EYNARD (on periphery, in pairs, within wreaths)
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection, inv. n. 460
THIS PLATE IS FROM THE BLACK and black series by Montereau Pottery; the same theme is featured in the colour series by the same man- ufacturer, based on the lithograph by H.C. Loeillot
(1824-25). Miaoulis is shown in the centre, bran- dishing his sword, boarding a Turkish ship; the Otto- man sailors flee in fear.
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