Definição

• Adumbration.  A shadowy design or faint representation on a medallic design as intended by the artist. An example in a three-dimensional medallic design is a surface denoting a two-dimensional drawing. A Pennsylvania Institute of Philadelphia Medal, circa 1855, by Ernest G. Chorman has such a design.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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