[Leica] IMG: G3

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Some of you may know this chappie as he had some dealings with your 
fathers - Founding Fathers that is. Now in the National Gallery of 
Ireland, this is John Van Nost's statue of King George III presented to 
Dublin City Hall in 1765, and still there when my grand uncle Sean led 
his troops in to take over the City Hall during the 1916 Easter Rising.

Sony A7ii and kit zoom. See Large.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/G3.jpg.html

The bronze statue was modeled from life by Van Nost who went to London 
for the purpose. Apparently, William Makepeace Thackeray, in his "Irish 
Sketch Book," refers to this work as "a pert statue of George III in a 
Roman toga simpering and turning out his toes." For you film and camera 
buffs, Thackeray also wrote "Barry Lyndon" which Leica fan Stanley 
Kubrick turned into a sumptuous piece of celluloid. Regarding the 
statue, my grand uncle lay dying on the roof above it, having been shot 
by a British sniper hiding in Dublin Castle.


Douglas