Episode 43: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

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Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on canvas, in the collection of the National Gallery of London [image source: Wikipedia]
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey in the National Gallery of London [image source: L. Sheedy]
The original French title of the painting [image source: L. Sheedy]
Detail of Jane’s hand, wearing a wedding ring [image source: National Gallery of London]
Photograph taken by me to demonstrate just how good the National Gallery’s online reproduction is! [image source: L. Sheedy]
Detail of Jane’s face and blindfold [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of Executioner’s hand [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of Lady in Waiting #1 [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of Lady in Waiting #2 [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of the rosary held by Lady in Waiting #2 [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of the executioner’s block [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of the backdrop of the “Tower of London” as imagined/depicted by Delaroche [image source: National Gallery of London]
Detail of the halberds, signaling that there are soldiers guarding the scaffold. No room for escape! [image source: National Gallery of London]
The print of the painting that Delaroche is alleged to have plagiarized. What do you think? Is it borrowing? Or is it theft?
William Skelton after John Opie, Mary, Queen of Scots at the Execution Block (from David Hume’s The History of England), etching and engraving, 1795 [image source: MET]
One of the many paintings of Lady Jane Grey that appeared in the aftermath of Delaroche’s success at the 1834 Salon. — Hendrik Jacobus Scholten, The Last Moments of Lady Jane Grey, c. 1850-99, oil on canvas [image source: Historic Royal Palaces]
“Master John,” Portrait of Catherine Parr (previously identified as Jane Grey), 1545, oil on panel, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery [image source: National Portrait Gallery]
Unknown artist, The Streatham Portrait, oil on panel, 1590s, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery [image source: Wikipedia] — This painting was long believed to depict Jane Grey. It is now believed that the painting shows Catherine Parr, Henry VIII’s last wife.
Unknown Painter, The Syon Portrait [Lady Jane Grey?], c. 1550-1600
Conservator Rachel Turnbull with a portrait allegedly (strong emphasis on “allegedly”) showing Jane Grey [image source: English Heritage via CNN]
Levina Teerlinc, Portrait of Katherine Grey (Jane’s Sister), c. 1555-1560, watercolor on vellum [image source: V&A]
A hand-written letter by Jane, aged 11 [image source: UK National Archives]
Edward VI’s Devise for the Succession — note the amendments on the third line, changing “L’ Jane’s heires malses” (Lady Jane’s male heirs) to “L’Jane and her heires malses” (Lady Jane and her male heirs) [image source: Wikipedia]
Jane’s signature [image source: BBC 4]
The Tower Green, where Jane’s scaffold would have been erected [image source: Historic Royal Palaces]
Brian Catling, Memorial to the Executed, 2006, glass and metal, Tower of London [image source: Wikipedia]
Detail of Brian Catling’s Memorial to the Executed [image source: Modus Operandi]
Graffiti from the upper chamber of the Beauchamp Tower at the Tower of London, allegedly carved by Guildford Dudley [image source: Historic Royal Palaces]
A tile commemorating Jane’s burial somewhere in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London [image source: On the Tudor Trail]
My Lady Jane! (truly, madly, deeply bonkers–but so much fun!) [image source: IMDB]

Happy listening!

Lindsay

From the hike on which I nearly perished (The Quiraing circuit hike on the Isle of Skye). Note that this image was taken before I realized I accidentally took us the long way, leading to two hours of walking on poorly marked trails that involved traversing rock gorges and small waterfalls. My bad.

2 thoughts on “Episode 43: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

  1. maursie's avatar

    My daughter and I love Stuff about Things. I hope you can keep posting once in a while. There is no better art blog than yours! Well researched and delivered with such enthusiasm and some well-timed humor and irreverence which we like so much!! We live in Italy but have a house in Green Lake so we feel some kinship with you. 🙂

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    1. Lindsay Sheedy's avatar

      Thank you so much! I’m so glad to hear it. I’m so very jealous of the fact that you live in Italy, but Wisconsin will always be home. Indiana (where I currently live for work), well… I’ll leave that be.

      Please tell your daughter I say hello. My best to you both.

      -Lindsay

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