The Execution of Lady Jane Grey: Only 16 Years Old : Page 2

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On Feb 8th Lady Jane Grey was informed that she was going to be beheaded the next day, Feb 9th. This was later changed to Feb 12th, while Jane was interviewed by Feckenham in the hope that she might convert to Catholicism and therefore be saved from the axe. Jane would not convert of course, and was therefore executed on Feb 12, 1554, at 16 years old. She was buried, along with Lord Guilford Dudley, in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula (St. Peter In Chains), it is located within the Tower of London grounds.

A note about her age - many books and many people, even yeoman tour guides at the Tower, state that Lady Jane Grey was 17 when she died. Obviously they don't know their math!

Jane was born in Oct 1537, and died Feb 1554. Yes, 1554 would've been her 17th year, but that would only have been if she had lived until Oct 1554, which she didn't. Jane turned 16 in Oct 1553 while in the tower, and was executed about 4 months later.

Note: As on the Tower Images page, the images of Jane giving her book to Sir John Gage maybe historically inaccurate, most books say she gave the book to Sir John Bridges.

The following are various images based on Jane's walk to the scaffold, and her execution.

Those that belong to my collection will have in the text section of the image "My Collection" plus what info I know about the image.

Those that I've found in other resources, online, or items I was unable to get, will just have the info I have on it.

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Lady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey
Left - My Collection (Print, Not the Book)
Caption: "Lady Jane Gray addressing the Spectators from the Scaffold on which she was Beheaded in the Tower"
Artist: Wale delin.
Engraver: Charles Grignion (1754-1804) sculp
Source: "Raymond's History of England"
Publisher: C. Cooke, London
Year: 1790
Notes: I do not know if my copy is that old as it has no date on it. But it very well could be.

Added 2 - 12 - 2004
Right - Caption: "Death of Lady Jane Gray"
Artist: Wale delin.
Engraver: Charles Grignion (1754-1804) sculp
Source: "A New and Universal History of England to the End of the Year 1770" 2. Vols
Author: William Henry Mountague
Publisher: J. Cooke, London
Year: 1770

Note: Info supplied by Inga Walton.

Added 7 - 9 - 2002 - Larger Image Added 11 - 11 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Cover: "The Traitor Queen"
Author: Pamela Barrow
Year: 1974

Submitted by Stephen Jakobi.

Added 2 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Caption: "Execution of Lady Jane Grey"
Source: "Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive and Protestant Martyrs"
Author: John Foxe
Edition: This edition states: "New Edition, Revised and Condensed, with Forty-one Full-page Coloured Plates"
Publisher: S. W. Partridge & Co.
Year: 1871

Added 2 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Caption: "Master Execution, I Forgive You For What You Have To Do."
Source: "Discoverers and Adventurers"
Author: R.J. Unstead
Illustrator: Ron Stenberg
Year: 1965

Added 7 - 9 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey by Martin Brown
My Collection
Caption: "Lady Jane Grey: I Am Ready and Glad To End My Woeful Days."
Source: "Even More Terrible Tudors"
Author: Terry Deary
Illustrator: Martin Brown
Year: 1998

Added 10 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Caption: "The Executioner Begs Lady Jane Grey's Forgiveness"
Source: "The Book of the Martyrs: Being A History of the Persecution of the Protestants, Carefully Complied From Original Documents In the Government State Paper Office, and Known As The "Acts and Monuments" Of the Christian Church"
Author: John Foxe, With a Memoir of Author, And a Preface by Rev. S.G. Potter, DD., Vicar of St. Luke's, Sheffield, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. The Earl of Desart
Publisher: London: John G. Murdoch, 99, Castle Street, Holborn
Year: Preface is dated 1873

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey
Two versions of the same image:

Left - Caption: "Mort de Jane Grey d' apres un peintre anglais" (English Translation: "The Death of Lady Jane Grey After An English Painter")
Source: "Magasin Universel"
Date: June, 1834.

Image/Info Supplied By Inga Walton For My Use - Please Do Not Use Without My Permission.
Added 10 - 12 - 2003
Right - My Collection
Caption: "Death of Lady Jane Grey"
Source: "Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of England"
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Editor: WM. C. Taylor, LL.D
Year: 1853
Read online here, this copy doesn't have the illustration my copy does though.

Added 7 - 9 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Cover: "A Crown In Darkness"
Author: Margaret Mullally
Year: 1976
Notes: Only the paperback copy has Jane on it.

Added 7 - 9 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Info: One panel from a 5 page illustrated comic on the Life of Jane.

To view the full comic go here Jane Comic

Added 10 - 21 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: May depict her execution, though one of the oddest representations of it I've seen if that's what it shows.
Source: "A select collection of novels and histories. In six volumes. Written by the most celebrated authors in several languages." 2nd edition in 6 Vols.
Chapter: "THE HISTORY and FALL OF THE Lady JANE GREY."
Publisher: London: John Watt
Year: 1729
Submitted by Stephen Edwards.

Added 7 - 9 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey CostumeLady Jane Grey CostumeLady Jane Grey Costume
Shows: Lady Jane Grey costume
Designer: Lee Porritt
Year: For his 2003 final degree show.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Artist requests that anyone who wishes to use his artwork to please contact him through me. - To see more of his Jane Artwork, go here.

Added 10 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: Lady Jane Grey and Her Executioner
Medium: Costumes
Designer: Lee Porritt
Year: 2004 To commemorate the 450th Anniversary of Jane's Death.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Artist requests that anyone who wishes to use his artwork to please contact him through me. - To see more of his Jane Artwork, go here.

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey by W. Thomas
My Collection
Caption: "Execution of Lady Jane Grey"
Source: "Seed and Fruit; or Young People Who Have Become Famous"
Author: Emma Leslie
Illustration By: W.Thomas
Publisher: Religious Tract Society
Year: 1875

Added 10 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Shows: Shows Lady Jane Grey At Her Execution.
Source: "Fifty Famous Women: Their Virtues and Failings, and the Lessons of Their Lives"
Year: 1879

Added 2 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Caption: "The Death of Lady Jane Grey"
Source: "A Concise History of England Comprised in A Set of Easy Lessons Illustrated by Engravings Being a Continuation of A Series of Historical Books for Children in Two Volumes"
Author: Mrs (Sarah) Trimmer
Year: 1808

Originally Added 2 - 12 - 2007 - Better Image Added 10 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: Giovanna Grey (Lady Jane Grey)
Medium: Lithograph
Artist: Achille Deveria
Year: 1834
Notes: He uses Paul Delaroche's "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey as the basis for this. Notice the distraught headsman, Feckenham is back in the group, and the extra ladies.

Image/Info Supplied By Inga Walton For My Use - Please Do Not Use Without My Permission.

Added 2 - 12 - 2003 - Larger Image Added 11 - 11 - 2007.
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Title: Jeanne Grey
Artist: Achille Devéria del.
Lithograph: Joseph Lemercier
Year: Circa Mid 1800s.
Notes: This is an almost exact copy of the previous image except for two major differences:
1) Jane's hair is not hanging in two tendrils on each side.
2) the woman in the background on the right is now holding her hand up.
There are also some minor clothes differences, mostly the colour of them, and the backgrounds are different.

Originally Added 7 - 9 - 2004 - Newer Image Added 2 - 12 - 2008.
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: Rough sketches showing Lady Jane Grey about to blindfold herself and be executed.
Medium: Watercolour & Pen
Artist: Lee Porritt
Year: 2005
Permission granted to use by artist.
Artist requests that anyone who wishes to use his artwork to please contact him through me. - To see more of his Jane Artwork, go here.

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection (Print, Not the Book)
Shows: Lady Jane Grey on the Scaffold
On paper included with print: When she was seen there, a groan of compassion arose from the spectators, and prayers were audibly uttered. She then advanced to the rail, and spoke in a clear, distinct voice.
Source: "Tower of London"
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Illustrator: Adrien Nargeot After Paintings by Hugh W. Ditzler
Publisher: George Barrie & Son
Year: 1898

Added 7 - 9 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Medium: Colour wash, pen and ink.
Artist: Lee Porritt
Year: 2007
Permission granted to use by artist.
Artist requests that anyone who wishes to use his artwork to please contact him through me. - To see more of his Jane Artwork, go here.

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: "She Was My Own Jane Grey"
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Size: 29" x 35" fr.
Artist: Amy Abshier-Reyes
Found here.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey by Yas Lewis and Arthur Hill
Title: "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey."
Medium: Pastel
Artists: Yas Lewis and Arthur Hill
Year: 2007?
Found here.

Added 10 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Artist: Rodney Robert Brown
Found here.

Added 7 - 9 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
Title: Lady Jane Grey Preparing For Execution
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 56 x 46 1/4 in.Artist: George Whiting Flagg
Location: New York Historical Society
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Lumen Reed.
Year: 1835
Info: This started out as Mary, Queen of Scots, Flagg changed the subject mid-work, telling Lumen Reed in a letter June 16, 1834: "I have changed the name of my picture to Lady Jane Gray. [sic.] I find that Mary was too old at the time of her exicution [sic.] to make an interesting picture."

Image/Info Supplied By Inga Walton For My Use - Please Do Not Use Without My Permission.

Added 4 - 25 - 2003
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Shows: Lady Jane Grey At Her Execution
Source: "British History In Strip Pictures"
Author: James Mainwaring, M.A., D.Litt.
Illustrator: Stanley Herbert
Year: 1953
Notes: A panel from the story page.

To see the full story go here: Jane Comic.

Many thanks to Historian Alison Weir for originally submitting the images from the book, which enabled me to find a copy for myself.

Added 2 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: Maybe Lady Jane Grey At Her Execution
Source: "A Metrical History of England, For Young People"
Author: E. Wood
Year: 1857
Notes: This might or might not be Jane. It comes at the end of a section on Mary I and right above Elizabeth's section, but Elizabeth was never on the scaffold and if it's supposed to be Anne, she wasn't beheaded with an axe.
Found here.

Added 2 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Info: From a poster that depicts mainly Elizabethan era events.

Added 2 - 12 - 2005
Lady Jane Grey
NEW
Title: At The Dawn of Execution
Medium: Drawn and painted in Photoshop 7.0.
Artist: Coor
Year: 2008
Permission Grant By Artist To Use.

Added 7 - 9 - 2008.
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