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4 unusual facts about The Execution of Lady Jane Grey


Sexual Beast

While the first pressings of the album were housed in a digipak case featuring the painting The Execution of Lady Jane Grey.

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

The painting was thought to have been destroyed in the disastrous Tate Gallery flood of 1928 during the 1928 Thames flood, and was only rediscovered in 1973 by Tate Gallery curator Christopher Johnstone.

She is being assisted by a man who is identified as John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos.

William Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore

But he bought two other Landseers, of the 31 in the 86 lot sale, and two of the next most expensive works, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833) by Paul Delaroche (lot 78, £1,575), and Cromer Sands by William Collins (lot 15, £2,205), now in Tate Britain.


Paul Delaroche

Cromwell lifting the Coffin-lid and looking at the Body of Charles is based on an urban legend, and The Execution of Lady Jane Grey is represented as taking place in a dungeon, which is badly inaccurate.


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