Head from a bust of King George III

This head from a bust of King George III (1738-1820) was retrieved from the bottom of a well. The bust was part of a monument erected in Place d'Armes in 1766. In 1775, when the Quebec Act came into force, British citizens, angered by the privileges granted to French Canadians, vandalized the bust. They painted it black, hung a potato rosary around its neck and topped it with a sign reading "Behold, the Pope of Canada, or the English idiot." A few months later during the American occupation of Montreal, the monument was destroyed.