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LastDodo number
5169919
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
IEANNE GRAY
Year
1697
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Publisher
Dimensions
29,8 x 17,0
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Portrait bust of Lady Jane Gray (1536/1537 - 1554) inside a laurel wreath on a cloth carried by two putti. At the bottom the name of the person portrayed and a 4-line poem in French. Copper engraving by Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen (1644-1708), after the painting by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722). Signed in print. Published in Rotterdam by Reinier Leers in 1697 in: "Historie d 'Angleterre, d' Écosse et d 'Irlande'". Lady Jane Gray, also known as Lady Jane Dudley or "The Nine Days Queen" was an English noblewoman and Queen of England from July 10-19, 1553.

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