There is a story that should be told a story of two brothers Thomas Anson and George Anson. They were the keepers of the Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire. Thomas was the elder brother a man who had interests in painting, Greek architecture and literature and was a member of the Dilettanti society. George had been a sailor since a young age and reached the high rank of Captain to a fleet of ships. At their home and within the grounds of the estate they had built a monument in a style depicting a painting by the artist Nicholas Poussin
the Shepards of arcadia, that is said points a way to a mythical garden of perfection, inscribed on the stone monument there are a series of letters D___O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V___M
Many famous people have tried to give meaning to those letters none satisfactorily. It's very old now, having been built about mid-1740s. My interest is to give meaning to the letters at this stage, since I have little knowledge of works of art by Nicholas Poussin.
There are also a few differences between the painting and the monument i.e. reversed image, a pointing finger or thumb on the Shepards hand. I suppose the only other link I do have is the date of birth of Poussin which is the 15 June.
That's 150 years earlier than when George came back to England with the Spanish Gold 15 June---- That would give great wealth to the brothers and grandeur to the estate. Not forgetting and not least there will be a bigger interest in the choice of the painting. Since I'm quite sure at this stage there was an interest in reprojecting their idea of a mythical garden of perfection.
This was done to represent not the numbers of man, but heavenly. It's just a key that gave meaning to the coded letters.
JOHN 1;16 Grace upon Grace an overflowing amount of grace and the tabernacle structure a dwelling place of God.
I said the upside because it really is and its down to a map gained by George from one of the Spanish Galeons that had given a name to a river as the sacred river of the Holy spirit, that is the Spanish name for the river Mississippi, M,I,S,S,I,S,S,I,P,P,I . that is also a code and defiantly linked to the one at Shugborough Estate great Heywood.