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 CANADA IN SCULPTURE. 
 
 A PAPER HEAD BEFORE THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 
 TORONTO, FEB. 12, 1887. 
 
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CANADA IN SCULPTUBE. 
 
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 In tiie Sonato House of the Uuivor.sity of Cambridge in England 
 there were 'to he seen, down to the year 1881, four line life-si?-; statues 
 in white tnarVjlo, each of them having associations connected witli it of 
 considerable public interest. Tin; Senate House it may be explained, 
 is the scene of all the great university ceremonies, just as the Shel- 
 donian Theatre is, at Oxford. It consists of one grand apartment, one 
 hundred and one feet in length, forty-two in breadth, and thirty-two 
 in heiirht. On the shining white and black marble tioor of this noble 
 hall, the four statues referred to were conspicuous ; two on one side, 
 and two on the other, each raised high on a pedestal bearing an appro- 
 l)riate inscription. One, on the north side, represented (leorge I; 
 and one exactly opposite to it, on the south side, r(!presented George 
 II ; the third, on the south side, preserved the shape of a former 
 Duke of Somerset, by name Charles Seymour ; and the fourth, 
 opposite to this, was a famous counterfeit presentment of the younger 
 Pitt. 
 
 It is a slight discoveiy which I once chanced to make in connection 
 with one of these statues, namely that of George II, now many years 
 ago, that I desire to put on record in this paper, for the V>ehelit of 
 future visitors to Cambridge from these j)arts, and Canadians gen- 
 erally. It must however be noticed that George II no longer stands 
 on the floor of the Senate House but must be sought for within the 
 walls of the adjoining Public Library of the University, whither, as 
 we shall presently learn, the statue of George I has also been removed. 
 Some of the legendary lore connected with these marl)le associates 
 of George II may be briefly given in passing The flgure of George 
 I, which is by the sculptor Kysbrack, recalls a pair of famous epi- 
 grams, so good that they are found in most collections. 
 
 The first two Georges were very friendly to the University of Cam- 
 bridge, regarding it probably as in some degree more favourably dis- 
 posed than Oxford towards the House of Hanover. Besides the 
 
donation of a tlionsand guineas to tho building fund for the erecticr. 
 of tiie Senate ] louse, George I liad also presented, to the university- 
 library, three thousand guineas' worth of books. It so happened that 
 just at the time of this gift of books to Caml)ridge some addition was 
 ma<le to the military force stationed at Oxf<ird. A wit of Oxford, a 
 representative of the supposed Toryism of the place, Dr. Trapp, ven- 
 tured to express himself on the occasion, thus : 
 
 The king observing with jiulioious i-yes, 
 
 The state of both his Universities, 
 
 To one lie sends a regiment ; for why ? 
 
 That learned body wantetl loyalty. 
 
 To th' other books he gave, as well diseerning 
 
 How much that loyal body wanted learning. 
 
 Of course, never yet out-done in such contests, Cambridge soon pro- 
 duced its counter-joke, and i)ut the case thus : 
 
 The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse 
 For Tories own no argument but force : 
 With ec[iial care to Cambridge books he sent, 
 For Whigs allow no force but argument. 
 
 This was done by a representative Whig of Cambridge, Sir William 
 Browne, of Peter house, Knight, M. D., founder of the coveted gold 
 medals for Greek and Latin epigram, besides scholarships, in the 
 University. — There is no epigram that I. know of associated with the 
 statue of the Duke of Somerset (also by Kysbrack) but it recalls a 
 statesman or pei-sonage very conspicuous in his day about the court* 
 successively of James II., Anne and William III. He was distin- 
 efuished from the other dukes of the same name as the " Proud Duke '* 
 from his general carriage and conduct. It was in great measure 
 tlirough independent action on his part at a critical moment in 
 James II's reign, that the succession ultimately passed to the House 
 of Hanover. On the pedestal of his statue he is styled : Acerrimus 
 libertatis publicce vindex. He was Chancellor of the University from. 
 1689 to 1748. 
 
 The statue of Pitt has an epigram associated with it, locally remem- 
 bered. Pitt had graduated at Cambridge in 1776 and had represented 
 the University in sevei-al successive parliaments. In 1812 it was 
 resolved to erect a statue to his honour, and funds were so liberally 
 supplied for the purpose, that not only was the statue erected, but 
 the Pitt Scholarship, value fifty pounds per annum, established. A 
 
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 place for the statiu^ was desired in tlio Senate House ; but the spot 
 considered most eli^able for it there was occui>ied by an allegorical 
 figure of " Glory " — aoademi j (llory — not very remarkable, the gift 
 of nome former grateful nie uber of the TTniversity. Tt was also 
 mischievously put about that it was an effigy of Queen Anne, as a 
 pasquinade of the day expressed it : 
 
 "Academic Glory, 
 Still in disguise a tjHieen, and still a Tory ;" 
 
 This statue of Glory was transferred to one of the adjoining Schools ; 
 
 that of Law, and Nollekons' Pitt was set up in its place. From 
 
 some anti-Pittite came forth the e})igram above referred to : it reads 
 
 as follows : 
 
 Sons of Sapience, you here a fair emblem display ; 
 For wherever Pitt went he drove ( Uory away. 
 
 An unfair saying, as the sayings of epigrams so often are, and the 
 inevitable rejoiner followeil : 
 
 Why thus exclaim and thus exert your wit 
 At making (Jlory here give place to Pitt? 
 We'll raise his statue of tlie finest stone, 
 For never here a brighter (JLtry shone. 
 
 The sole inscription at the base of the statue is the word Pitt. It 
 had been ordered by the committee appointed to superintend its erec- 
 tion, that "it should be free in every part, from emhlematical or 
 allof^orical devices:" a prohibition characteristic of the university 
 wliose famous professor of Mathematics, Vince, held that "Paradise 
 Lost was all very fine but proved nothing." The remuneration 
 received by Nollekens was three thousand guineas. Pitt was further 
 honoured at Cambridge at a later period. At the time of his death 
 in 1806, funds for erecting statues to him in London came in ao 
 abundantly that a large surplus remained which in 1824 was devoted 
 to the erection of the important structure known as the Pitt Press, 
 the scene of the printing operations of the University of Cambridge, 
 just as the Clarendon is the scene of those of the University of 
 Oxford. (Most persons have probably noticed the very Italian look- 
 ing imprint h Prelo FUtiano on the title page of Latin and Greek 
 books printed at Cambridge.) 
 
 I now proceed to narrate my discovery made some years ago in 
 connection with tiie statue of George II. at Cambridge. The king 
 
i.s representoil iti wliat is called the Koiiiiiii style. He ia Hgurod as 
 a s>icc(!ssful lioinan general or iiuperator, lauroated, and wearing the 
 lailitary chlaniys or toga, artistically disposed in such a way as to 
 allow tlie beautiful lorica and various trappings of the Roman mili- 
 tary costume, to be well seen. ll(! slightly leans against a low 
 truncated column on which rests a rather large ball or globe : the 
 king's right arm gracefully encircle.':' this object. 
 
 One day T was standing on a bench close by this statue, for the 
 purpose of getting over the heads of tlie surrounding assemblage, a 
 better view of som(! academic proceedings going on at the upper end 
 of the groat hall, where the statue was then placed. Thus elevated, 
 the eye was biV)UL,dit on a kn'el with the ball or globe just spoken of. 
 With considerable indifl'ereuce at the moment, I gave a little flourish 
 of a pocket handkerchief over its upper surface just to brush away 
 some of the dust which ajiparently had not been disturbed since the 
 time of the erection of the statue. To my great su})rise I suddenly 
 discerned a very familiar word cut on the marble of the ball in rather 
 large characters, so large that the word extended from one side to the 
 other of the upper portion of the sphere : that very familiar word 
 was Canada. The globe placed in the position in which it was seen, 
 and thus insci'ibed, was intended to be an emblem of the acquisition 
 of Canada, just at the clos(i of the reign of George II. In various 
 funeral orations and academic elegies on the occasion of this king's 
 death still preserved, the comjuest of Canada figures largely ; and 
 when a few years later tht; sculptor Wilton, designed a statue to be 
 set up in his honour in the Senate House at Cambridge, he adopted 
 this method of commemorating the great event. It is probable that 
 the sculptor chose the Koman style for the figure to make it match 
 pleasantly with the statue of George I., on the opposite side of the hall, 
 which was in this style. Wilton was also the sculptor of the cenotaph 
 of Gen. Wolfe in W'cistminster Abbey, which is treated likewise in 
 the classical manner. 
 
 On one side of the truncated column, on which the king leans, 
 a long chain of metlallions is seen suspended. Each of these is 
 supposed to be commemorative of some success to the British arms 
 in the king's reign. The name of Quebec appears on one of them. 
 Words on some of the others are : Guadaloupe Capta MDCCIX., 
 Quiberon, Senegal, Lagos, ]Minden, Victoria in Oriente. 
 
 The orb which the king's arm here encircles had more real signifi- 
 
canco than any orVi rvor l»oforo hopii in tlio ]iiin<l of a British kinj;. On 
 the great seal of all the ourl • kinirs of Knylaml the soveroii^n is 
 seen 8eat»'il, with an orl» in his 1 jft liund ; and ii part of the ceremony 
 of coiunaHon to this day consists in ]>liicin^ in the hainls of the 
 sovert'i;,'!! an orh, with a certain .idmonition — a mere shallow of old 
 imitative custom, borrowed fi-om usages at liy/antium, when the 
 imperial grasp on the orhts femn'tnn had grown fe(!ble. Hut the 
 glohc encircled by tho arm of (Jeoige J I. indicated u real possession. 
 whose importance has increased as the years liave rollfd on. 
 Parkman has obsin'ved, in the preface of his book on lAnitiac: "The 
 «on(iuest of Canada was an event of momentous consequence in 
 American history. It changed tlm jiolitical aspect of the continent, 
 prepared the way for the indej)endence of the }3ritisli coh)nies, 
 rescued the vast tracts of the interior from the rule of military desjiot- 
 ism, and gave them eventually to the keeping of an oi'dt.'rly democ- 
 racy," language to wliich there will be little tlennn- on the Cana<lian 
 side of the line. I'hus, the grandeur of the idea symbolized by the glol>e 
 held by George II. is oidy sui'|)assed by the grandeur of that which is 
 symbolize(l l)y the globe in the hand of Columbus, as seen in Pt-rsicos 
 group entitleil "The Discovery," at the south eiul of the steps of the 
 Capitol at Washington. — The ((uiet, easy pos(! of tho king, and the 
 j)leased glance upward of the eyes, wore doubtless intended by the 
 sculptor to indicate the happy circumstances and comparative ease of 
 the con(i[uest of Canada ; as exjiressed likewise in wor<ls Vjy George 
 III., in his memorable tirst speech to Parliament on his lu'cession to 
 the tlirone : "I reflect with pleasure," the new monarch said, "on 
 the success with which the British arms have been prospered this 
 last summer. The total reduction of the vast Province of Canada, 
 with the city of Montreal, is of the most int^'resting consecpience, 
 and must be as heavy a blow to my enemies as it is a concpiest 
 glorious to usj the more glorious because eHected almost without 
 effusion of blood, and with that humanity whicli makes an amiable 
 part of the character of this nation. ' 
 
 Grandly significant indeed was the name Canada on the globe in 
 the king's hand at Cambridge in ITGT). But how nmch more grandly 
 signiticant is it now, when we have actually taken possession of the 
 whole area indicated on that .sj^mbolical s[)here ; when we have 
 covered it throughout its length and breadth with settlements of 
 industrious men and women; built villages, towns, cities, at innumer- 
 
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 ablo points within its limits ; havo conipHct*^! all toj^etliei* in ono 
 comprehensive civil system, so tar as innate perversity in poor l>lin<l 
 humanity has not otlei-ed obstruction ; have actually hraeed the whole 
 to;;et}i«'r with a literal ;,'inlle of iron and st«'el. a o<jntinu()Us railway 
 track Hiachini^ from sea to sea — practical realization t^t last of the 
 dreaujs of how many enthusiasts of former days ; not merely a swift 
 and easy medium of intercommurdcutiou for the danadiuu people 
 among themselves, hut a hii;hway and thoroughfare for ready inter- 
 course in all future time between the tctuning i>opulatioiis of Asia, 
 Australasia and Kurojte. 
 
 As to the (juestionahle taste of setting up a king of England in 
 the guis(^ of a Koman imperator or (.'lusar, it is to bo observed, b( fore 
 leaving the subject, that this njas<pierading in marble sprang out of 
 the studies pursued so absorbingly at the tin>e at Kton and in the 
 public schools genej-ally of (ireat Hi-itain. That was an age when on 
 the Hoor of l)oth Houses (juotations from Horace and Virgil were 
 recognized and f!njoy».'d, and a mythoK>gical allusion was understood. 
 In that age, which was jjrolitic of ap' inscriptions on coins and 
 mc'dals, originated the Ltitin motto which sonu^ will remember on the 
 public seal of the old Province of U[»per Ciinada : Imperil porrt'cta 
 Majestas, ('uMoilf rennn C(Psare, — "The greatness of the empire 
 extended under the guardianship of a Caesar," it ran, with direct 
 allusion to the very extension of the empii'e symbolized by the globe 
 of the statue of George II., and affording another instance of the 
 fashion once in vogue of saluting an English king as a ( !a!sar. We 
 shall, some of us perhaps, recall Thackeray's grotesijue little sketch 
 labelled ^^ Avd, Co'Sdr," in his book on the four (ieorges, showing Sir 
 Robert Walpole in the act of announcing -^ the king his accession to 
 the throne. But we must take Tliackeray's pictures, both of pen and 
 pencil, cum (jrano. He, like several other brilliant essayists and 
 historians that might be named, when he approached the weak points 
 of a public character, was apt to proceed as though he held a brief 
 against the offender and to exaggerate considerably. In regard to 
 George II., it will be becoming in us, at this distance of time and 
 place, charitably to accept the general truth of what is said of liim 
 on the pedestal of the statue we have been contemplating. We can 
 read it for ourselves in the photograph co|)y, which, however, lias 
 failed to give legibly two or three of the lines here supplied from 
 -another source. The inscription reads as follows : Georgio Secundo 
 
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 piitrtmo una optlmh merpyiti, nempn' vericrcuifo : ijuoil x'olenti Populoy 
 jii,-tfissliiih, hitiiKiniHslmb, in Pave et in lUillo, ffliciter imperavit ; 
 ijiitnl Actnhttnnia Co tU(ihrlf/ii'ii,s 'tn J'oi'lt, au.rit, ortiuvit, hmic stutiiain, 
 8uls suniptiiiiH /)( ni rnrai'if Thmnna llollex, Ihu' da 
 Ne.wcuHtlc, Acadcmia' Cancelltirius, A.I). M !>('<' LX VI. I iiiiiy .'uhl 
 that I lirtvo lu'vor fiilloii in \\'\'\\ any one who fvt'r noticed tho 
 iiis«'riho(l wonl Cdrid'ld. which is to ho fbund on tliis statue. Tlio 
 l)hotoi,'ra]»h was taken •'Xjn-essly for myself, through the frit'iuUy 
 co.o|HM"ation of Mr. Klijali Johnson, Trinity Stn-ca, ('aiu)iri<igt\ Tho 
 scale, however, is too small to a<lnjit of the word being seen. 
 
 My second in.stance of Canada in scul|)tMre will lie the heaufiful 
 end)l«'inatical figure of (\inada to he discovered among the .statuary 
 which so richly ornaments the Piinco Consort's memorial in London, 
 on tho site of the first great Inu jpational Exhihition of 1851. This 
 very elaborate structure, after a dtv.ign by (liUn-rt Scott, is soni' vvhat 
 in the style of the well-know Escott Mem'>'-i-l in Ediiil)Ui-gh. Tho 
 central and principal objccw in it is -i .seated statue of the Prince 
 Consort, admirably executed in br luze by Foley, placed on a lofty 
 platform, to which ^n ascent is inn le by a pyramid of steps, a canopy 
 and spire surmounted by a cross ri'-ing above all to the height of one 
 hundred and eighty feet. A foliu volume -j.'ght be filled, and has 
 been tilled, with the architectural and ar!istic details of this struc- 
 ture, which is one of the most wonderful monuniental buildings of 
 modern times, the combined production of the most eminent sculptors 
 and workers in metal and mosaic of the three kingdoms. All the 
 arts and sciences, with the distinguished personages who«/) names are 
 associated therewith in ancient and modern history, are somewhere 
 or other riuelv idealized in or about it. A thorouj^h studv of all its 
 parts should be [)atiently made. 
 
 Among the most conspicuous groups of .sculptured objects are four 
 of colossal dimensions, each of them masterly and full of ])oetry, 
 placed on a grand pedestal at the four angles of the enclosure, just at 
 the base of the steps, symbolical of the four i{uarters of the globe, 
 this monument being commemorative, not only of the Prince Uonsort, 
 but also of the great International Exhibition of 1851, the first iilea 
 of which was due la him, and was carried into effect through his 
 instrumentality. In each of these corner groups a gigantic animal, 
 characteristic of the quarter of the globe tyi)ified, plays a conspicuous 
 part, bearing on its back an eml)lematic figure of the quarter of the 
 
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 globe re|)resi'nt('tL Europe (by Macdowell) is seen mounted on an 
 ox or bull ; Asiii (bv F iley),on an elephant ; AiVica (by Theed), on a 
 camel ; America (by Bell), on a bison. Each continental figure is 
 surrounded by graceful forms, typifying the chief nations or sub- 
 divisions of that quarter of the world, distinguished and made known 
 by appropriate symbols or the mode of attire. America has around 
 lier South America, ^fexico. the Rej)ublic of the United States, and 
 Canada. I shall contine myself to this group of the sculptor Bell, 
 and particidarly to that ])ortion of it which illustrates my present 
 subject. This group, as an oibcial document sets forth, consists 
 of a central figure of America, as a cpiarter of the globe, 
 mounted on a Bison charging through the long prairi(> gra.ss. 
 Their advance is directed by the United States on the one side, 
 while on the otlun- Canada attends them, pressing the ros(^ of 
 England to her l)i'eiist. [It is ]>rob;il)le, had Confederation been 
 an accomplished fact when the Pi-ince (,'onsort's memorial was 
 designed, Canada would have been treated with even greater distinc- 
 tion than that which is here accorded tc her, and spoken of [)erhaps 
 in somewhat diflrrent teinns ; but tlm beautiful thought of the 
 sculptor causing her forever to be seen "pressing the rose of P]ngland 
 to her breast " atones for everything]. In the other figures of the 
 comiK)sition ar ■ presented Mexico rising from a trance, and South 
 America eijuipped for the chase. The details and emblems aie as 
 follows : — The figure of America is of tin; Indian type and in native 
 costume and feathered head-di'css, and the housings of the bison are a 
 grizzly bear's skin. In her right hand is a stone-pointed feathered 
 lance, with Indian totems of the grey squirrel and hunnning bird,, 
 and on her l-jft arm she bears a shield with blazons of the principal 
 divisions of the hemisphere: the eagle for the States, the beaver 
 for Canada, the lone star for Chili, the volcanoes for Mexico, the 
 alpaca for Peru, and the Southern Cross for Brazil. In the grass, 
 aroused by the passage of the bison, is a rattlesnake. The features 
 of the figure representing the United States are of the North 
 American, Anglo Saxon, civilized type ; the tresses are surmounted, 
 by an eagle's plume and by a star, which is re})eated on her baldrick, 
 at the point of the sceptre in her right hand, and on the bracelet 
 round her left arm; in her left hand is a wreath foi'ined by the leaves 
 of the evergreen oak. At her feet lies the Indian quiver with but an 
 arrow or two left in it. Her dress is partly thin and partly of a 
 
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 thicker t(.'xtuie, to recall the great range of lier climate. In tlie i»re- 
 sentatioii of Catuula, who, tli s same documeiit goes on to state, is 
 habited in furs [as a matter o." course, it might jxu'haps have been 
 added |)arenthetically, althougl it iinist l)e allowed they are made 
 (juite light and etherial], the feaures ai(^ of a more Ei^glisli type. In 
 her heail-dress are woven the maple leaf of the mainland and the 
 May-flower of Nova 8cotia. In liei- I'ight hand are eai\s of wjie.it, of 
 which we receive from her sui-li lirgr sii[)plies, and at hei' feet are a 
 ])air of isnow-shoi's and a liraneli and (.one of tlif pine tree. — Tiiis is 
 the figure which is reproduced in the photograi>h. 
 
 I hiive never myself seen the Prince Consort memoiial in its per- 
 fected state. From some description which I had rea<l of it a good 
 while ago, I was under the imi)ression tliat a figure of C'ana<la existed 
 somewhere n[»on it, which J much desired to see. I accordingly 
 commissioned a friend who was visiting London to procure for me 
 when there a photograph of it. The disappointing report however 
 was brought back after repeateti ii.((iiiries in the neighV)ouring studios, 
 that there was no figure of (Janada on the Albert Memorial. 1 sup- 
 posed for a time that I had been under a misapjirehension ; but again 
 after reading some casual account of this memorial, I became con- 
 vinced that such a figure was really there somewdiere. I now api)lied 
 to a friend in London, and l)egg<Ml him co nuike a particidar search, 
 and to procure if possilde a {diotograph *of it. I now learned that 
 many photogi'aphs of the grand group of America in which Canada was 
 inchuled were to be had, but that they were usnally taken from such 
 a i)oint of view that the figure of Canada was not seen, being gen- 
 erally eclipsed by the figure representing the United States Kepublic. 
 Just when it was about to be concluded useless to continue the search 
 for a pliotogra))li showing the figure of Canada, one was by great 
 good fortune stunib>led on b\' my friend. It was instantly secured, 
 and forwarded to me. From this I have had an enlarged copy of 
 the fi-'ure of Canada made bv Mr. Lemaitre of Xo. '.V2A Yonge Street, 
 who has cleverly detached it for me from the grouj) '* America". 1 
 have no doubt that Canadians visiting London will soon have no 
 dih'iculty in finding out the graceful symbol of their country of which 
 we have been discoursing, and that photograi)hs showing it favour- 
 ably will be readily procured. 
 
 One <Tood efiect resulting from Fiell's magnificent grou{i will Ite, it 
 is hoped, the disengagement in the mind of the general public, of the 
 
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 United States Republic, fi'om America, with wliich it is so often 
 identified and confounded — a confusion promoted by tlie phraseology 
 very generally employed in the United States and thoughtlessly in 
 England. As well might Germany be sj)okon of in common parlance 
 as Europe, or Russia as Asia, as the United States Republic as 
 America. Heie in the Memorial group the United States Republic 
 is seen simply as one of the constituents of Amei-ica, with Canada, 
 ecpially a constituent of the continent, by her side, "pressing the rose 
 of England to her breast," and helping to guide the i»isou thi'ough 
 the wild prairie grass. 
 
 After all, however, perhaps it is not much to b(^ wondered at that, 
 amidst the multitude of emblematical objects a})pearing in sculpture 
 on the Prince Consort's Memorial, the figure of Canada should be 
 overlooked by the generality. But it should not be overlooked by 
 the Canadian. He, often solitary in the dense throng of London, 
 should make a point of singling it out and enjoying it. Hereafter, 
 probably, that figure will be adopted as the standard idealization of 
 Canada, to be recognized at once just as the figure of Britannia is 
 recognized, or as the figures of Caledonia, Hibernia, Gallia, Helvetia, 
 and so on, are recognized. And as a souvenir of a visit to the old jMother 
 Land — would not the coTuely head of this sculptured Cfuuula look 
 well in profile on a medal, after the fashion of La Repnhliquc Fran- 
 gaise on French coins, surrounded, let us suppose, by the legend ; — 
 Canada unita : esto perpetua : /erax : felix : fausta — " Canada made 
 one; mayest thou endure, fruitful, prosperous, favoured of Heaven," 
 an aspiration finding a res| onse in every patriotic heart. 
 
 [In illustration of this ixipor were exhiljited, besides the photoKTaphs, an cn,u raving of the 
 interior of tiie Senate-House, showiny the four statues ; a larj;e medallion with heads of George 
 II. and Queen Caroline facing each other on the obverse, and on the reverse their seven sons 
 and daug*>ter9 ; an engraved portrait of Queen Caroline ; a two-iifMuid gold piece (IT.'iO) of 
 George II., inserted in a contenijiorary silver cup, and having, in addition to the usual titles of 
 the king, the following— /iriufxr/ct'H.v/.f c^ Lnii^'burriciiniK Dux: Sacri Imperii Roiiiani Arclil- 
 Tlicmiiriiis ,;( Ekvtor, abbreviated thus: H:ET:L:r):S:K:l:A:T.i:T:E. Also an engraving of 
 the seated bronze figure of the Prince Consort iji the Memorial.)