[Leica] IMG: G3

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Thackeray's description is spot on!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:30 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Douglas
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