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PRINCE FREDERICK CREATED PRINCE OF WALES
DASSIER, Jean: England, 1729, Bronze, 41 mm
Obv: Bust of Prince Frederick on a pedestal between the figures of Fame and
Britannia; an infant Genius, bearing his plumes and motto, hovers over his
head FRIDERICUS WALLIAE PRINCEPS AET. XXII. (Frederick, Prince of Wales,
aged 22.)
Exergue: MDCCXXIX
Rev: An eagle teaching its young one to fly towards the meridian sun from
the summit of high mountains; in the distance, sea with ships
VIRTUTE
INGENITA FORTIS DUCTUQUE PARENTIS (Bold by Inherent Virtue and by the
Example of its Parent.)
Exergue: SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. (Thus We Pass to the Skies. Virg. Aen. ix. 641)
Signed: I.D.
Ref: Med. Ill. ii, 489/29 (ill.) ; Eimer 78/516
Frederick Lewis (1707-1751) was the eldest son of George
II and Caroline, and the father of George III. He was created Prince of
Wales in 1729 at age 22. The obverse shows his investiture and the reverse
alludes to his father's introducing him to his new responsibilities. The
relations between father and son were, in fact, unfriendly, as George II
ordered Frederick out of St. James' Palace, requested ambassadors to
refrain from visiting him and refused to allow him to command the British
army against the Jacobites.
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