HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE, CONSORT OF KING GEORGE IV.
CHAPTER XII
Placard (continued)—The old Exhibition—Celebrities of the day—Tussaud’s mummy—Poetic eulogism—Removal to Baker Street—The Iron Duke’s rejoinder—Madame de Malibran.
DANIEL O’CONNELL
The old placard next proceeds to enumerate some of the then modern celebrities in the Exhibition as follows:
Portrait likeness of the Rev. John Clowes, of St. John’s Church, Manchester, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, taken (with permission) from life within the last ten years; the Artist, Mr. J. P. Kemble, in the character of Hamlet; the celebrated Mrs. Siddons in the character of Queen Catherine; Dey of Algiers; full-length Portrait of Daniel O’Connell, esq., M.P., taken with permission (from Mr. P. Turnerelli’s celebrated bust), for which Mr. O’Connell gave sittings in Dublin; Sir Walter Scott, taken from life in Edinburgh, by Madame Tussaud, which was seen by thousands, and also honored by his approbation; Lord Byron, taken from life in Italy.