Head-and-part-shoulders bronze bust of George IV, the sitter's head a quarter turned to his left, with the hair parted on the left, and he wears a V-neck pullover over an open-necked shirt. The figure sits on an integral rectangular base with the inscription 'H. M. KING GEORGE VI.' on a wooden composition board fixed the front, painted to look like bronze. The piece is signed 'K. SCOTT' under the right shoulder.

Kathleen Scott (later Lady Kennet, 1878-1947) was trained as a sculptor at the Slade School and subsequently in Paris. She returned home in 1906 having developed many notable artistic connections, and produced fine but limited early work. In 1908 she married Captain Robert Falcon Scott, their only son (later Sir Peter, the naturalist and painter) was born the following year. When she was widowed by Scott's death in the Antarctic in 1912 she devoted herself to her son, to developing her artistic career and to other good works. At that time she was known as Lady Scott, having been granted the style of the widow of a Knight Commander of the Bath. In 1922 she remarried to the businessman, politician and journalist E. H. Young, later Lord Kennet.

Her best known statue is the monument to her husband (1915), in London's Waterloo Place, but she did much else in an artistic career that saw its high point in the inter-war years. A notable earlier commission of 1913, unveiled the following July, was the bronze statue at Lichfield of Captain Smith of the 'Titanic', who died within three weeks of Scott.

This bust of George IV was presented to the Museum in May 1962 by the Boy Scouts Association London. Lady Scott also did at least one other of the king, in stone and admiral of the fleet's uniform. While not widely known today she has been considered the most significant 20th-century British female sculptor before Barbara Hepworth.