Gilded Lead
King George III in the form of a statue of himself on a horse, made of lead and gilded with gold, was installed in a park in New York in 1770. The king's sculptor, John Wilton, had made it out of 4,000 pounds of lead, covered in bright yellow gold and standing on white marble, to resemble the famous equestrian of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. The statue was pulled down by a crowd after George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence read to the citizens of New York on July 9th of 1776. Bullets made from the lead were used in the War for Independence.
Pieces of the monument turned up for years afterwards, but the head found its way back to England.
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