David...and his 50 cm fig leaf

I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum in London last week, specifically to view the reproduction statue of Michaelangelo’s David. My intentions were entirely honourable as my interest was geocaching related. Because for some reason I had expected a life size cast, when I came across the 6m tall statue, I was totally unprepared for its height.  And that explains why, after the statue had been presented to the museum by Queen Victoria, a plaster cast of a fig leaf that used to be attached to the statue to spare the blushes of visiting female dignitaries, had to measure 50cm.