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Lady Jane Grey "Reigned" For Nine Days : Page 1

Lady Jane Grey was informed on July 9th that King Edward VI had died and left the crown to her. Despite this, her "reign" is dated from July 10th and ends on the 19th, thus making her "The Nine Day Queen" as opposed to the "10 Day Queen", which it would've been if dated from July 9th.

The following images represent Lady Jane Grey on the day she was informed of becoming Queen and her brief reign.

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.

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My Collection Shows: Lady Jane Grey Source: "Horrible Histories: The Terrible Tudors" Authors: Terry Deary, Neil Tonge Illustrator: Martin Brown Year: 1993 Added 10 - 12 - 2007	My Collection Shows: Lady Jane Gray kneeling at Edward VI's bed side. Source: Lady Jane Gray, A Tragedy Author (Dramatist, Playwright): Nicholas Rowe Artist: Hamilton pinx Publisher: Printed for J. Bell, British Library Date: Nov. 25, 1791 Text: Act II Scene I "Lady J - As I approach'd to kneel and pay my duty, He rais'd his feeble eyes." Notes: Published as part of "Bell's British Library" in London in 1791. Not sure how old this copy really is as it has a stamp from the library it once belonged to from 1962. Added 11 - 22 - 2002	My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Grey and her friends went in their barge up the river to Sion House, but when they arrived and landed they found no one to receive them." Source: "The Romance of the Nation: A Stirring Pageant of the British Peoples Through All the Ages" Author: Charles Ray Publisher: Amalgamated Press Year: 1934 Added 2 - 12 - 2009.	Shows: Set Drawing From "Nine Days", a musical on Lady Jane Grey by Joel Froomkin Caption: "The White Tower in the Tower of London. Jane and her husband are brought against their will to the Tower, where they learn Jane has been declared as Queen." Notes: Historically this actually took place at Sion House and Guildford Dudley was not present. Found here. Added 10 - 12 - 2007

Title: Northumberland Announcing the Kings's Death to Lady Jane Medium: Magic Lantern Slide Makers: York & Son Year: c1890 Added 2 - 12 - 2010.	My Collection Caption: "The earls began to make deferential speeches, bending the knee before Jane, and their example was followed by several noble ladies." Source: "The Romance of the Nation: A Stirring Pageant of the British Peoples Through All the Ages" Author: Charles Ray Publisher: Amalgamated Press Year: 1934 Added 2 - 12 - 2009.	My Collection Caption: "When Lady Jane Grey heard that King Edward had made her his heir, she swooned, and for a time lay as though she was dead." Source: "The Romance of the Nation: A Stirring Pageant of the British Peoples Through All the Ages" Author: Charles Ray Publisher: Amalgamated Press Year: 1934 Added 2 - 12 - 2009.	My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Fainting" (on learning Edward VI was dead and she was to be Queen) Source: "Pleasant Stories in Prose and Verse" Author: Jane Boden Year: 1877 Added 7 - 9 - 2007

Title: "I raised myself upon my knees and prayed to God" Medium: Magic Lantern Slide Makers: York & Son Year: c1890 Added 2 - 12 - 2010.	My Collection Shows: Lady Jane Grey being offered the crown 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	My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Saluted As Queen" Source: "Women of the Reformation: Their Lives, Faith and Trials" Author: Ellen O. Clayton Artist: Walmsley Year: 1861 Text: "The first news having been broken to her, a few hours after, The Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Northampton, and several other nobles, came to Sion House, the third day of after King Edward's death, and, falling on their knees, offered her homage due to a Queen." Added 10 - 12 - 2007	My Collection Caption: "Messengers Were Sent To Lady Jane Grey Acclaiming Her Queen of England" Source: "Heroes & Heroines of English History" Author: Alice Spencer Hoffman Illustrator: Gordan Browne Year: 1912 Read online here. Added 10 - 12 - 2007

Shows: Lady Jane Grey being offered the crown Location: The Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs Found here. Added 7 - 9 - 2005	Caption: "Henry Machyn - 9th July, 1553: The ninth day of July was sworn unto the Queen Jane all the head officers and the guard, as Queen of England" Source: "Look and Learn Magazine" Article: "July 6th, 1969 - July 12th, 1969 - Beheading and Bathing" Illustrator: Ron Embleton Found here. Added 7 - 9 - 2007	My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Grey Refusing the Crown" Source: "Little Arthur's History of England" Author: Lady Maria Callcott Year: 1884 Read online here Added 10 - 12 - 2003	Caption: "Lady Jane Grey Refusing the Crown" Source: "The People's Magazine - An Illustrated Miscellany - For All Classes" Year: 1867 Found here. Originally added 7 - 9 - 2007 - Larger Image Added 7 - 9 - 2008.

Shows: Lady Jane Grey Source: "The Sunday Magazine For Family Reading" Authors: Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh Illustrators: A.B. Frost, Swain (?) Year: 1878 Read online here. Added 2 - 12 - 2008.	My Collection Shows: Seems to be the offer of the crown to Jane Source: "Lady Jane Grey and Her Times" Author: George Howard, ESQ (aka Francis Charles Laird) Year: 1822 Read online here. Added 10 - 12 - 2003	My Collection Shows: Seems to be the offer of the crown to Jane. Source: "A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths, of the Primitive As Well As The Protestant Martyrs, From the Commencement of Christianity to the Latest Periods of Pagan and Popish Persecution" Originally Composed By: Rev. John Fox, A.M. Publisher: Alden, Beardsley & Co. Year: 1854 Read online here, 1853 edition. Originally Added 2 - 12 - 2007 - Better Image Added 2 - 12 - 2008.

Caption: "Lady Jane Grey Prevailed on to Accept the Crown" Artist: Charles Robert Leslie Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 445 x 486 mm Location: Tate Gallery, UK Year: Circa 1827 Notes: Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan in 1900 Found here. Better Image/Some Info Supplied By Inga Walton For My Use - Please Do Not Use Without My Permission. Added 4 - 25 - 2003	Title: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey by The Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk Medium: Oil on Canvas Artist: After John Singleton Copley Size: 27 x 36 in. (68.6 x 91.4 cm.) Found here. Added 7 - 9 - 2008.	My Collection Title: Lady Jane Grey's Reluctance To Accept The Crown Medium: Magic Lantern Slide Artist: Charles Robert Leslie Makers: Newton & Co. 3, Fleet St, London Information: Copied by Permission of Messrs. H. Graves & Co. Added 2 - 12 - 2010.	My Collection Title: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Artist: Charles Robert Leslie, R. A Pinx Engraver: C.G. Lewis Location: In the Gallery of His Grace The Duke of Bedford Publisher: London, Virtue & Co. Limited. Notes: A later engraving of "Lady Jane Grey Prevailed Upon to Accept the Crown" (1827) by Charles Robert Leslie. Added 7 - 9 - 2002

Title: Lady Jane Grey's Reluctance To Accept The Crown Artist: Charles Robert Leslie Source: "Pictures & Royal Portraits - Illustrative of English & Scottish History" (2 Vols) Author: Thomas Archer Year: 1886 Publisher: Blackie & Son, Old Bailey. Read online here: Vol 1. & Vol. 2. Added 2 - 12 - 2003	Caption: "The Crown Offered to Lady Jane Grey" Source: "Pictures of English History - From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria" Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Year: 1883 Read online here. Added 2 - 12 - 2008.	Shows: Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey with Guildford Dudley being offered the Crown, and Lady Jane Grey Description: Beneath the gilt of the fore-edge within an oval frame is a painting of Lady Jane Grey with Edward VI. On either side are their portraits surrounded by floral decorations. Author: Francis Hodgson Printer: T. Bensley for J. Mackinlay Year: 1809 Found here. Added 7 - 9 - 2009.	Title: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Artist: Charles Robert Leslie (The Original Painting) Medium: Firescreen Submitted by J.W. Bellamy. Please Do Not Use. Added 2 - 12 - 2006

My Collection Caption: "The Nobles Fell Upon Their Knees And Did Homage To Lady Jane Grey" Source: "The Story of the Janes" Author: Grace Humphrey Illustrator: Hattie Longstreet Price Year: 1928 Added 7 - 9 - 2005	My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Asked To Become A Queen" Source: "The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey" Publisher: American Sunday School Union - Philadelphia. Year: Not Dated But Has An Inscription From 1848. Added 2 - 12 - 2008.	My Collection Medium: Tobacco card Series: The Pageant of Kingship Series Publisher: Peter Jackson (Overseas) Ltd. Year: 1937 Notes: This series was put out to commemorate the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The image is based on the Charles Robert Leslie painting, "Lady Jane Grey's Reluctance To Accept The Crown". Added 4 - 25 - 2003	My Collection Caption: "The Lords Of The Council Kiss The Hand of Lady Jane" Source: "Discoverers and Adventurers" Author: R.J. Unstead Illustrator: Ron Stenberg Year: 1965 Added 7 - 9 - 2002

Title: The High Officers of State Offering the Crown to Lady Jane Medium: Magic Lantern Slide Makers: York & Son Year: c1890 Added 2 - 12 - 2010.	My Collection Title: "Lady Jane Grey Declining The Crown" Medium: Hand colored (coloured) steel engraving. Artist: Robert Smirke (Original Engraving). Year: 1860 Added 7 - 9 - 2004	My Collection Title: Lady Jane Grey Declining the Crown Artist: Robert Smirke, R. A Engraver: J. Rogers Publisher: The London Printing and Publishing Company. Added 7 - 9 - 2002	Title: Lady Jane Grey Declining The Crown Artist: Based on the Painting By Robert Smirke Engraver: J. Fittler Size: 12" x 8-1/2" Source: "The History of England From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688" Author: David Hume Publisher: T. Bensley, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street for Robert Bowyer, Pall-Mall Year: 1806 Added 2 - 12 - 2008.

Title: Lady Jane Grey Declining the Crown Artist: Robert Smirke (Original Engraving) Source: "Young Woman's Companion" Author: Mrs. Heman Location: The Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs Found here. Added 7 - 9 - 2005	Title: Lady Jane Grey Declining the Crown Source: "Little Arthur's History of England" Author: Maria Callcott Year: 1835 Notes: Based on the engraving by Robert Smirke. Found here. Added 10 - 12 - 2006	Shows: Lady Jane Grey Artist: Archykins Medium: Digital Art Year: 2006 Notes: Based on the engraving "Lady Jane Grey Declining the Crown" by Robert Smirke. Found here. Permission Granted To Use By Artist Added 10 - 12 - 2006	NEW My Collection Shows: Lady Jane Grey Source: "The Protestant's Manual or Reasons for the Reformation" Section: No. 158: "The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey; With Some Extracts From Her Writings" Publisher: London: The Religious Tract Society Printer: W. Clowes ("Jane Grey" tract). Year: c. 1888 (date found in inscription on flycover). Added 7 - 9 - 2010.

Title: "Lady Jane Grey Accepting the Crown" Medium: Sculpted Frieze Sculptor: Henry Fehr Location: Middlesex Guildhall, London Photographer: Christopher Partridge Information: The frieze Lady Jane Grey accepting the crown of England on the death of her cousin, Edward VI in 1553. Her husband, Lord Guilford Dudley, stands behind her, and I think that must be her horrible mother, Lady Frances Brandon, behind the crown. The crowd of men presumably represent the Protestant nobility who pushed her onto the throne, including John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Guilford's dad. Found here here. Permission Granted To Use By Photographer Added 2 - 12 - 2010.	Title: "Lady Jane Grey Accepting the Crown" Sculptor: C. H. Feler Medium: Sculpted Frieze Location: Middlesex Guildhall, London. Submitted by Roland Hui. Each image opens into a new window, click on the one you want for a larger view. Added 11 - 22 - 2002	My Collection (Book the Image Is In) Title: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey (Unlocated) Artist: John Singleton Copley Year: 1806 - 7 Image Source: "And When Did You Last See Your Father? The Victorian Painter and British History" Author: Roy Strong Year: 1978 Notes: Following Info Supplied by Inga Walton This earlier one includes a self-portrait of John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) under the window. The later one (1807-9) has some alterations to the grouping, and is believed to be still extant at the Somerset Club, Boston. Added 7 - 9 - 2002	Shows: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Source: "Comic English Histories" Author: Richard Doyle Year: 1886 Image Credit: Time Life Pictures Originally Added 2 - 12 - 2005 - Larger Image Added 2 - 12 - 2009.

NEW My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Grey Refusing the Crown Source: "Foxe's Book of the Martyrs" Author: John Foxe Publisher: London: The Book Society Year: c. 1888 (date found in inscription on flycover). Added 7 - 9 - 2010.	NEW Shows: Lady Jane Grey Declining the Crown (top) and relief of Paul Delaroche's "Execution of Lady Jane Grey" (bottom) Medium: Gilt Bronze Mantelpiece Clock Information: French Found here. Added 7 - 9 - 2010.	Shows: Lady Jane Grey Being Offered The Crown Source: "The History and Fall of the Lady Jane Grey" Year: 1729 Added 7 - 9 - 2009.	My Collection Shows: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Source: "Merrie England: Travels, Descriptions, Tales and Historical Sketches" Author: Grace Greenwood Illustrator: Devereux Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Year: 1858 Read online here. Added 2 - 12 - 2009.

My Collection Shows: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Source: "Pictorial History of England" Author: S.C. Goodrich Year: 1868 Read book online here. Added 7 - 9 - 2003	My Collection Shows: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Caption: "All knelt in homage before her while Northumberland proffered her the crown." Source: "Merrie England: Travels, Descriptions, Tales and Historical Sketches" Author: Grace Greenwood Publisher: Ginn & Company Year: 1908 Read online here. Added 2 - 12 - 2009.	NEW Shows: Lady Jane Grey Being Offered the Crown Source: "True Stories From English History" Author: Maria Elizabeth Budden Year: 1852 - 6th Edition Read online here. Added 7 - 9 - 2010.	Shows: The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey Source: "True Stories from English History" Author: Maria Elizabeth Budden Year: 1852 Found here - File 31 (for image) Chapter XXVII. Added 7 - 9 - 2007

Shows: Lady Jane Grey offered the Crown Medium: Original Drawing, red and black chalk. Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani Description: Lady Jane Grey offered the Crown; Northumberland and Suffolk, one standing, the other kneeling, present the crown to Lady Jane who makes a gesture of refusal. Size: 175m x 192m Location: British Museum Found here. Added 2 - 12 - 2009.	Title: The Dukes Northumberland and Suffolk Begging Lady Jane Grey to Accept the Crown Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi Image Supplied By Inga Walton For My Use - Please Do Not Use Without My Permission. Added 7 - 9 - 2007	My Collection Caption: "The Crown of England Offered to Lady Jane Grey" Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Original Painting) Source: "John Cassell's Illustrated History of England", Vol. II Text By: William Howitt Publisher: W. Kent and Co. Year: 1858 Notes: I own the disbound print, not the book. Read online here. Added 10 - 12 - 2005	My Collection Title: "The Dukes Northumberland and Suffolk Begging Lady Jane Grey to Accept the Crown" Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi Location: Victoria & Albert Museum, London Original Image Source: Art Resource, NY Secondary Source: "Renaissance Magazine" Issue #29 Article: The Queen and the Pawn: The Destinies of Two Tudor Princesses. Added 7 - 9 - 2003

Title: "The Dukes of Northumberland & Suffolk Praying Lady Jane Grey To Accept the Crown" Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi Date: Feb. 14, 1786 Publisher: W. Palmer, London. Image/Info Supplied By Inga Walton For My Use - Please Do Not Use Without My Permission. Added 2 - 12 - 2003	Title: "Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk Asking Lady Jane Grey To Accept The Crown" Artist: Giovanni Cipriani Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi Location: Victoria & Albert Museum, London Original Image Source: Art Resource, NY Secondary Source: "Renaissance Magazine" Issue #17 Article: "The Unsung Heroes, Villains, Fallacies, Achievements, Fads, Events, Atrocities, and Crazes of the the Last Millennium" Added 2 - 12 - 2004	Title: The Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk praying Lady Jane Grey to accept the Throne Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi Medium: Stipple engraving, printed in colours, on wove. Size: 270mm x 370mm (10 1/2in x 14 1/2in) Added 2 - 12 - 2004

Title: The Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk Praying Lady Jane Gray to Accept the Crown Artist: Giovanni Battista Cipriani Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi Date: May 20, 1803 Publisher: A. Molteno, Printseller to Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of York, No. 29 Pall Mall. Submitted by Richard Hession. Added 2 - 12 - 2005	Title: Le Duc de Northumberland Offres Sa Couronne Lady Jeanne Grey" (I think that's supposed to be "The Duke of Northumberland Offers the Crown to Lady Jane Grey") Medium: A Cobalt Bronze 44 inch Sevres Vase Found here. Notes: This is the largest image I could get of it. Added 2 - 12 - 2007	My Collection Caption: Lady Jane Grey Solicited To Accept the Crown Source: "The History Of England For The Young" - Volume 2 Author: Henry Tyrell Year: 1853 Added 7 - 9 - 2005

My Collection Source: "The Royal Alphabet" Publisher: Warne's Now and Then Juvenile Series Date: Approx 1897 Added 10 - 12 - 2006	Source: "Aunt Friendly's Nursery Keepsake" Section: "The Royal Alphabet" Publisher: London: Frederick Warne and Co Found here. Added 2 - 12 - 2010.	Source: "Warne's National Nursery Library" Section: "The Royal Alphabet" Publisher: London: Frederick Warne and Co Found here. Added 2 - 12 - 2010.

My Collection Title: Lady Jane Grey Urged To Declare Herself Queen Artist: Cator Woodville Added 7 - 9 - 2002	My Collection Caption: "Lady Jane Grey Signing Accession Proclamation" Medium: Cigarette Card Publisher: Taddy & Co's Cigarette's Coronation Series Card #17 Year: 1902 Originally Added 2 - 12 - 2005 - My Collection Card Added 10 - 12 - 2006

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