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Sign: London - Greenwich - Statue of King George II


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Greenwich Peninsula, London, UK
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On the sign:
Hic ames dici Pater atq Princeps
[Royal Standard of the United Kingdom (1714-1801)]
IMPERIUM PELAGI

[Side 2]
Fessos tuto placidissima portu Accipit

[Side 3]
Principi Potentissimo
GEORGIO Secundo
Britanniarum Regi
Cujus Auspiciis et Patrocinio
Augustissimum Hoc Hospitium
Ad Sublevandos Militantium In Classe Emeritorium
Labores a Regis Ipsius Antecessoribus Fundatum
Auctius indies et Splendidius exurgit
JOHANNES JENNINGS Eques
Ejusdem Hospitii Praefectus
Iconem Hanc pro debita sua
Erga Principem Reverentia
Et Patriam Charitate
Posuit
Anno Domini
MDCCXXXV

[Side 4]
Hic Requies Senectae
His Modus lasso Maris et Viarum
Militiaeq
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The statue in which the King of Great Britain and Ireland, George II (1683-1760) is commemorated, shows the king wearing the military uniform of the Roman emperors and holding a scepter and ball.
The statue was made in 1735 by John Michael Rysbrack

The statue was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

The other sides of the base of the statue were photographed on the same day
Side 2 Click for a larger image
Side 3 Click for a larger image
Side 4 Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
Here you love to be called Father and Prince
[Royal Standard of the United Kingdom (1714-1801)]
THE EMPIRE OF PELAGI

[Side 2]
He receives the weary safely in the most peaceful harbor

[Side 3]
To the Most Powerful Prince
GEORGE Second
to the King of Britain
By whose auspices and patronage
Augustus Hospita
To Relieve Soldiers in the Retired Navy
Labors Founded by His King’s Predecessors
It rises higher and more splendid
JOHN JENNINGS Knight
The Governor of the same Hospital
This icon for his debts
Reverence for the Prince
And the country with charity
He put
in the Year of our Lord
1735

[Side 4]
Here rests the aged
With these weary mode of the sea and the roads
And the military

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