Chapter 2. In Search of Jane Grey
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch2
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) In Search of Jane Grey, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch2
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- in search of Jane Grey;
- early years of those attaining celebrity - exhibiting traits of a peculiar nature;
- establishing likeness for Jane with anything like authority;
- sitter wearing a gold brooch mounted with a black classical head;
- jewel owned by Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife;
- another painting, anonymous three-quarter length from the 1550s by Hans Eworth;
- persuasive likeness of Jane - offered by three paintings;
- ‘The Lady Iayne’ and the sitter's costume is congruent with 1550s;
- likeness of Jane, full-length owned by John Lord Lumley - ‘of the Lady Jane Graye, executed’;
- text attributed to Jane, surfacing in Storia Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzione d'Inghilterra