I wish we could've seen the jewel for a bit longer. It was the entire subject of the whole piece! Oh well, that's what the pause button is for I suppose. Absolutely fascinating though. I never would have known about this....
I was hoping to get a better and longer view of the jewel itself, not just fleeting glimpses. I also would like to know what happened to Lord Nelson's hat. Was it buried with him?
iIRC, there was also a spring mechanism that caused the ray-rachis to vibrate slightly with movement. It was a kind of automaton, much in the spirit that Van Cleef & Arpels is known for today
Trojanette83 h. He most likely had several hats. However, there is an effigy in the Queens Gallery Westminster Abbey. He is wearing a hat and clothes that were actually his.
@@IrishAnnie Oh, you're kidding. I did not know that. I have visited W.A However, I don't think I went to the Queen's Gallery. Thanks for telling me. I do plan on sometime in the future returning to England. Perhaps next time I'll get a chance to go there.
Trojanette83 The Queens gallery opened for her Diamond Jubilee. It’s basically the attic of the Abbey. They found some really cool things there and made an exhibition of it. What’s really amazing is that you are so high up, you can almost reach out and touch the “beasts” that adorn the flying buttresses. You can see them right through the windows. It was an additional $5, but so worth it.
OK OK nice brooch but surely it would have made more sense to have had it remade in the east where the original came from ? Rather than spend many many thousands of someone's money ( the nation ? ) and trying to intellectualise it by saying that 'we can learn from it', really ?? It will be put behind glass like so many other objects ,,,,
I do always wonder if Admiral Lord Nelson was cursed in someway because his sacrifice/s were heavy. King George and his Queen Charlotte insulted him by giving him a second hand coffin, they held it against him for not being faithful to his wife. No Wonder George wasn't smart enough to score America when it just wasn't in him to give England's most Precious Hero the courtesies he really deserved.
Rupert Prawnworthy, the winning and losing of Nelson’s Chelengk is an allegory of the recent history of the British Empire itself. To win a prize by force, battle, only to lose it through negligence, incompetence, maybe a little arrogance. See India, Kenya, et al. That I have to spell this out to you is ridiculous. I have been to the British Museum.
@@dave623 All of the world powers lost their empires after the second world war, I got that you were attempting an allegory i just thought the basis of it is a bit idiotic and somewhat trumpian trying to be clever about something while presenting or understanding perhaps 3% of the facts of the situation.
Dear Mr. Rupert Prawnworthy. I take it by your “name” that you are a subject of Her Majesty the Queen and I duly apologize for calling you and all of your countrymen ‘losers’. That being said, a Trumper would never have watched this video, unless it ended with a monster truck full of bowling balls driving off a steep cliff. Also, and I am sorry again, WWII was the final nail in the British Empires coffin. I will bet my left nutsack you can name at least 1 of 2 world super-powers that took over. I pray, good day to you sir. And to answer your original question, yes I’ve been to the British Museum and Nelson’s thing wasn’t there.