MEL.355:06-2013
Parts
Object number
MEL.355:06-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sash
Description
Lesser George
Other number
20010000008853
Description
Content (description)
The Lesser George, set with sardonyx cameo of St George and the Dragon, obverse with a gold relief of St George slaying the dragon, surrounded by enamelled flowerheads
History and association
Associated person
Object history note
Awarded in 1810 to Richard, Marquess Wellesley (at Eton 1771-1778)
Exhibited in 1891 at Eton as part of the 'Loan Collection of Portraits, Views and Other Objects of Interest, Connected with the History of Eton'
Catalogue printed by R. Ingalton Drake (1891)
Object no. 481, p.98
Presented to the College by Mr Alfred Montgomery, who was his Private Secretary in Ireland in his second Lord-Lieutenantship
Exhibited in 1891 at Eton as part of the 'Loan Collection of Portraits, Views and Other Objects of Interest, Connected with the History of Eton'
Catalogue printed by R. Ingalton Drake (1891)
Object no. 481, p.98
Presented to the College by Mr Alfred Montgomery, who was his Private Secretary in Ireland in his second Lord-Lieutenantship