The Lady Jane Grey Proclaimed Queen
Print
1748 (printed)
1748 (printed)
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| Place of origin |
Etched portrait, half-length of a woman in a cap and wearing pearls.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Lady Jane Grey Proclaimed Queen (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching on paper |
| Brief description | Print, half-length portrait of Lady Jane Grey. Etching by George Vertue after an unknown artist, 1748. |
| Physical description | Etched portrait, half-length of a woman in a cap and wearing pearls. |
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| Content description | Portrait, half-length, to front; the sitter wearing a low, dark cap, small ruff, pearl collars and a brooch with two strings of pearls falling from it; oval in a border with arms and insignia below, and a female figure weeping. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'The Lady Jane Grey Proclaimed Queen. She was Daughter of Henry and Frances Duke and Dutchess of Suffolk married to Lord Guilford Dudley. AEtat 16, Obt. Ano. 1554. This from an Original in the possession of His Grace Ad Archetypum delinet sculpsit. G. Vertue Inscrib'd to his Most Noble Grace Algernon Seymour Duke of Somerset, by his Graces most Humble and most Obedient Servant Geo: Vertue 1748.' (Lettered) |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 21973 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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