The Execution of Lady Jane Grey: Only 16 Years Old : Page 4

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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 Grey
Title: Jane Grey Executed - Plate XLVI.
Artist: Kronheim
Source: "Pictures of English History from the Earliest Times"
Year: Circa 1892
Found here Mary Evans Picture Library.

Added 7 - 9 - 2005
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Title: "Martyrdom of Lady Jane Grey"
Artist: Craig del
Engraver: Wallis sculp.
Publisher: C. Brightly Bungay
Date: April 1809
Notes: Not sure if mine is really that old.

Added 10 - 12 - 2005
Lady Jane Grey
Title: Death of Lady Jane Grey
Source: "The Female Instructor; or Young Woman's Companion; Being A Guide To All Accomplishments Which Adorn the Female Character, etc"
Author: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
Year: 1812?
Publisher: Nuttall, Fisher and Dixon

Added 2 - 12 - 2008.
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Info: Published as a plate illustration in a circa 1870 volume on the religious history of Europe, possibly an edition of "Foxe's Book of Martyrs".

Added 2 - 12 - 2003
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection (the book it appears in)
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Source: "The Who's Who of British Beheadings"
Author: Geoffrey Abbot - Yeoman Warder [ret'd] HM Tower of London, Member of Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard Extraordinary
Year: 2000

Added 7 - 9 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
Info: Maybe the Execution of Lady Jane Grey, looks similar to other images of her execution.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey at the Tower of London
Medium: Etching
Artist: George Cruikshank
Found here: The Granger Collection.

Added 7 - 9 - 2004
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Artist: George Cruikshank
Original Source: "Tower of London"
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Year: 1840
Secondary Source: "Tower of London"
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: Time-Life's Wonders of Man series.
Year: 1971

Added 7 - 9 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Caption: The Execution of Jane Grey
Source: "The Pictorial Tower of London"
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Illustrator: Designed and Engraved From Original Drawings made by George Cruikshank by W.D Baker (or Bakers)
Year: Circa 1870s

Added 1 - 8 - 2003
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Info: Based on George Cruikshank artwork for William Harrison Ainsworth's "Tower of London".
Found here.

Added 7 - 9 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Caption: "Execution of Lady Jane Grey"
Artist: Possibly by W.F. Sutton and probably based on the one by Cruikshank.
Source: "The Peoples' History of The Tower of London and Visitors' Guide To its Armouries, Royal Apartments, Chapels, State Dungeons, Crowns, Sceptres, Jewels, Costumes, Monarchs, Knights, and Warriors In Armour: and many other ancient National Curiosities. Also the Instruments of Torture and the Axe and Block, Formerly used for Executing Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Nobles, and other Persons."
Year: Circa 1800s to early 1900s

Added 7 - 9 - 2004
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Shows: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Info: Seems based on the Ainsworth Tower of London scene
Series: Torture & Punishment
Publisher: Ancestors Ltd, Canterbury, Kent.
Year: 1997
Notes: Purchased at the Royal Armouries - Tower of London, Sept 2001

Added 7 - 9 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
My Collection
Shows: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Info: Inset from "Lady Jane Grey Declining the Crown"
Artist: Robert Smirke, R. A
Engraver: J. Rogers
Publisher: The London Printing and Publishing Company

Originally Added 7 - 9 - 2002 - Better Scan Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: Jana Regina
Medium: Drawing
Artist: ~Wyspre
Year: 2006
Found here.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
Caption: "The Lady Jane Beheaded in Tower"
Original Source: An Early History of the British Museum
Secondary Source: "The Tower of London A to Z"
Author: Jan Kellett
Year: 2001

Added 11 - 22 - 2002
Lady Jane Grey
Caption: "The Lady Jane Beheaded In The Tower"
Found here Lady Jane Grey's Clocks.

Added 7 - 9 - 2004
Lady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey
My Collection
Medium: Toy
Title: Lady Jane Grey and Executioner No. H2
Publisher: Made in England by Tradition.

Left Image Added 7 - 9 - 2002 - Better Image Added 11 - 11 - 2007 - Right Image Added 7 - 9 - 2005
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: Lady Jane Grey's Head On the Block
Artist: Irene Vandenameele, inspired by a short play on Jane written by Eddy Piron.

Submitted By Eddy Piron.

Added 10 - 12 - 2003
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: Lady Jane Grey's Head On the Block
Artist: Irene Vandenameele, inspired by a short play on Jane written by Eddy Piron.

Submitted By Eddy Piron.

Added 7 - 9 - 2003
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Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Medium: Colour wash, pen, ink and watercolour.
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.

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
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Shows: Lady Jane Grey's Head Severed
Artist: Irene Vandenameele, inspired by a short play on Jane written by Eddy Piron.

Submitted By Eddy Piron.

Added 7 - 9 - 2003
Lady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey
Left - Title: "Mon. eve 12 Feb 1554. The reliques of Lady Jane Grey"
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 30 cm h x 25.50 cm w (11 3/4 in h x 10 in w).
Artist: William James Grant

Right - Title: "The Relics of Lady Jane Grey"
Artist: Possibly William James Grant
Note: Though not an image of Jane, it does show the aftermath of her execution.
Found here.

Left Added 7 - 9 - 2006 - Right Added 2 - 12 - 2003
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Tower of London, A Beefeater's Ghost from the City
Medium: Colour Lithograph
Artist: by Hans Unger
Location: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.
Year: 1956
Text:
"A beefeater's ghost from the city
Found the girls of to-day not as pretty
As Lady Jane Grey
Whom he spoke to each day".
Found here.

Originally Added 7 - 9 - 2006 - Better Image Added 2 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane GreyLady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey
Shows: Headless Historicals Lady Jane Grey
Artists: Shiva Rodriguez and Garith Pettibone
Medium: Reworked vinyl doll.
Size: Approx. 20" tall
Details: She wears a long hunter green gown made of plush velvet and trimmed with an embroidered floral fabric ribbon around the neckline and bodice. Cream-colored silky under-sleeves peek out from beneath the wide bell sleeves of her gown. A gold trim circles her waist and a large cross dangles from it. Jane's severed head has hand-painted features and wears her beautiful auburn hair in a high braided style beneath a matching headdress with a black lace veil. A large pearl-like pendent necklace surrounds what is left of her neck. The spinal bone, slightly crushed from the axe blow, protrudes slightly from the bleeding neck stump.
Found here.

Permission granted to use by artists - Shiva Rodriguez and Garith Pettibone of HeadlessHistoricals.com.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane GreyLady Jane GreyLady Jane GreyLady Jane Grey
Shows: A one of a kind (OOAK) Lady Jane Grey 16" designer doll.
Artist: D.L Marian
Info: She has a porcelain head and soft filled body. She has long black hair and glazed eyes. The clothes are reworked vintage clothing. She bears the wounds of her execution.
Dark Creatons.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: Another headless Lady Jane Grey representation.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
Lady Jane Grey
Shows: A headless Lady Jane Grey doll from Closed Casket Dolls. - Permission granted by artist to use.

Added 2 - 12 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Soul of Lady Jane Grey
Artist: Johanna Pieterman
Info: A very unique drawing of Jane's soul from the artist's point of view.
Johanna's artwork can be found here.

Permission to use image granted by Johanna Pieterman.

Added 4 - 25 - 2003
Lady Jane Grey
Title: I Am The Bogeyman
Medium: Cartoon
Artist: JoniGodoy
Year: 2007
Info: Created for a kids magazine, called "Big Bang" and published by the Editorial Televisa, with reason of showing the reader in an article the different sorts of ghost and bogeymen that have appeared in the history, the tales and the legends.

From left to right: "La llorona" (Mexican legend), Abraham Lincoln, Bachelor´s woman (below), Sir Walter Raleigh, Anna Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Saint Thomas Beckett, Catherine Howard, Oscar Wilde´s Canterville Ghost, and J.K. Rowling´s Nearly Headless Nick and Moaning Myrtle.
Found here.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: Lady Jane
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 137 x 91.5 cm (54 x 36 in)
Artist: Natasha
Info: Natasha says this painting is supposed to depict Jane's ascent of her soul into heaven after her execution.
Found here.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Added 2 - 12 - 2005
Lady Jane Grey
Title: The Ghost of Lady Jane Gray
Artist: jacktar51
Found Artrage Gallery.

Permission granted to use by artist.

Added 7 - 9 - 2007
Lady Jane Grey
Title: Ghost of Ravenclaw
Artist: Laura Freeman
Info: Some people thought the Ghost of Ravenclaw in the Harry Potter series was Lady Jane Grey and this is supposed to be a drawing of that ghost. We now know she was the daughter of Ravenclaw.

Added 10 - 12 - 2006
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