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Lady Jane Grey
40 of 57 portraits of Lady Jane Grey
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Lady Jane Grey
by James Hopwood Sr, published by Ogles, Duncan & Cochran
engraving, published 1 June 1815
6 3/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (162 mm x 100 mm) plate size; 6 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. (171 mm x 109 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D36326
Sitterback to top
- Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey) (1537-1554), Proclaimed Queen 1553. Sitter associated with 57 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- James Hopwood Sr (1745 or 1754-1819), Printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 27 portraits.
- Ogles, Duncan & Cochran (active 1815), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
This portraitback to top
Frontispiece to Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women, of the British Empire, by Samuel Burder (1773-1836).
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Events of 1815back to top
Current affairs
John and James Leigh Hunt are released from prison after a two year sentence for slandering the Prince of Wales in their outspoken, radical periodical the Examiner.Corn Laws are introduced to protect against the collapse in prices which would inevitably follow peace with France, prompting riots in London.
Art and science
Humphry Davy invents the miners' safety lamp though its reception is clouded by William Clanny and George Stephenson who present rival models in the same year.British Institution arranges first in innovative series of Old Master exhibitions
provoking virulent attack on its patrons for neglecting contemporary art.
International
Napoleon returns to France from exile in Elba and resumes power until his abdication on 22 June; a period known as the 'Hundred Days'.Battle of Waterloo concludes the Anglo-French struggle that had lasted more than a century. Peace of Vienna establishes Britain's global political, economic and imperial dominance which lasts for the next hundred years.
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