Andrew,
Love the pattern! Well done sir!
I really liked this bust when it came out but decided against it due to the growing back log in my gray army and decreasing time with going back to school for my RN.
You make me wish I had done him.
I researched him for an appropiate plaque when I was thinking of buying the piece and I've copied what I found for you (source is Wikipedia)...I just love the poem of his epitaph.
On 17 January 1670, judge
Sir William Morton found him guilty of six robberies (others remained unproven) and sentenced him to death. Despite many attempts to intercede, the king did not pardon him and he was
executed on January 21 at
Tyburn. He is reputed to have stopped for his last drink at the
Swan Inn on the Bayswater Road, London, on the way to Tyburn, now commemorated at the pub by a plaque.
When his body was cut down and exhibited in Tangier Tavern, it drew a large crowd and was later removed to
St Paul's church, Covent Garden, where it was buried under the centre aisle. His
memorial inscription reads:
Here lies DuVall: Reder, if male thou art,Look to thy purse; if female, to thy heart.Much havoc has he made of both; for allMen he made to stand, and women he made to fallThe second Conqueror of the Norman race,Knights to his arm did yield, and ladies to his face.Old Tyburn’s glory; England’s illustrious Thief,Du Vall, the ladies’ joy; Du Vall, the ladies’ grief.
[1]The apparently gallant highwayman inspired a number of
biographers and
playwrights to add to his
legend, including claims of
alchemy, gambling, and much womanizing.
He is reported to haunt the
Holt Hotel along the
A4260 (Oxford Road) in Oxfordshire, a hotel where he spent many nights when it was a small coaching inn.
[1]
In any case, cangrats on a very nice bust
Kevin D
