Joanna Gray (Lady Jane Grey)
Unknown Artist
1776 to 1800
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11.9 × 8.5 cm (4 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.14.549
Art Historical Context
Step into the world of 18th-century printmaking with this delicate engraving titled *Joanna Gray (Lady Grey)*, created by an unknown artist between 1776 and 1800. Measuring just 11.9 × 8.5 cm, this intimate sheet from the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection captures the tragic Tudor figure Lady Jane Grey, often called the "Nine Days' Queen Proclaimed queen of England in 1553 a power struggle following Edward VI's death, the young Protestant noblewoman reigned for just nine days before being deposed and executed at age 16 or 17 by her Catholic cousin, Mary I. The Italianate spelling ...