Again, Macaulay, enlarging upon the popularity of Frederick the Great in England, tells how at one time enthusiasm reached such a height that the sign-painters were everywhere employed in touching up the portraits of Admiral Vernon, which hung outside innumerable public-houses, into the likeness of the King of Prussia, a curious commentary, by the way, on the family motto, “Ver non semper virit.”[43] Further, it is on record {228} that after Trafalgar such was Nelson’s popularity, that Daniel Orme, engraver to George III., bought a plate of Napoleon at the sale of a Ludgate Hill printseller’s effects, and altered it into a portrait of our national hero. [43] The following extract from a recent newspaper shows that the practice has not yet altogether died out:— “In the action of Tussaud _v._ Stiff, heard in the Chancery Division by Mr. Justice Buckley yesterday, the plaintiff, Mr. Louis Tussaud, sought to restrain defendant by injunction from carrying on his business of exhibiting models in such a way as to induce the public to believe that the models he showed were the work of the plaintiff. It was stated by the plaintiff’s counsel that, in consequence of an injunction granted some years ago, it became necessary for the plaintiff to carry on his exhibition as Louis Tussaud’s New Exhibition in Regent Street. It was afterwards turned into a limited liability company, and removed to the Alexandra Palace. Some of the models were sold to the defendant, but no goodwill of the business was sold. The defendant had since opened several exhibitions of waxworks, other models had been added to those sold by the plaintiff, and the models of the plaintiff had been split into a considerable number of pieces, while models made by other persons than the plaintiff were exhibited as Louis Tussaud’s waxworks. Counsel informed the Court that _in one case the head of the Archbishop of Canterbury had been put on the body of Charles Peace, and in another instance Napoleon was represented as taking part in the execution of Mary Queen of Scots_. The defendant’s present exhibition was a penny show in the Edgware Road. _In another instance the head of Mr. Ritchie, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was put upon a dying soldier._” The Mr. Louis Tussaud here mentioned must not be confused with Mr. John Tussaud of the Marylebone Road Exhibition. Examples such as these might be multiplied, but here are enough for our purpose. They show that the systematic practice of copperplate adaptation has its counterpart in other departments of art. [Illustration: Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper. (_The plate in its first state_)] [Illustration: Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper. _As adapted by the Anti-Jesuits_]