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Foster 278

Record Id:
032-003264640
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003264640
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 278
Title:

Round plaster portrait of King George V (1865-1936) in profile. Head and shoulders looking left. The King wears the Crown of India and the Insignia of the Indian Orders. Model for design on the new Indian currency rupee on accession of George V. Coin included. Artist(s): Mackennal, Sir Edgar Bertram (1863-1931)

Scope & Content:

George V (1865-1936)

Profile; head and shoulders looking left. The King wears the Crown of India and the insignia of the Indian Orders.

Plaster model; diameter 11 ins (29 cms)

Model for design on the new Indian currency rupee on accession of George V.

Commissioned by the Financial Department for the Government of India

The model was approved by the King on 4 April 1911 and his Private Secretary informed Mackennal that the King thought it ‘a great improvement on the old one’. A letter from the Government of India on 25 April 1912 reported that the design had led to a rumour amongst Muhammedans that the elephant on the lower of the two collars on the King’s bust resembled a pig and that the Government were withdrawing the issue. On 16 May 1912 the Finance Department, India, noted that a slight alteration had been made in the punch at the Mint ‘so as to mark the heavy f lap of the ear and to raise the trunk upwards, with the result that not even the most prejudiced person could mistake the identity of the animal. The rumour did not spread to any extent and we have every reason to believe that it has died out’. (IOLR/F/6/945, File 3156 1911).

Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Project / Collection:
India Office Sculptures
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Hierarchy:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 Item
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Styles:
British school
European school
Start Date:
1911
End Date:
1911
Date Range:
1911
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: plaster; framed

Finding Aids:
Mildred Archer, The India Office collection of paintings and sculpture (London, 1986), 98
Material Type:
Artefacts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1865-1936
Mackennal, Edgar Bertram, 1863-1931
Subjects:
Portraits