3-000-232 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Portrait of Prince George of Denmark composed entirely of minute writing, 1860. '...one day, during the examination of a slim folio volume (Add. MSS. 4027) [in the British Museum], Sir Frederic Madden discovered the curious and interesting fact that...[the portrait was not the work] of the graver at all, but [was] composed entirely of writing executed with a pen - containing words enough to make a moderately-sized book! The volume in question... is entitled "An Account of the Several Matters and Transactions of State contained in her Royal Majesty Queen Anne's Picture since her happy Accession to the Throne of her Ancestors. Performed in Writing by John Dundass...1702".' From "Illustrated London News", 1860.