3-034-592 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Lady Jane Grey's Victory over Bishop Gardiner", by G. F. Folingsby, 1871. Engraving of a painting. '"Gardiner is deputed by Queen Mary to convince Lady Jane of her errors, and offer a pardon for herself and husband on condition of being reconciled to the Church of Rome. She refuses to recant, and Gardiner breaks off the discussion in a rage."...several attempts were made to induce Lady Jane Grey to recant during her confinement in the Tower...She is represented to have been remarkably beautiful and intelligent, yet to have preserved all the unaffected graces proper to her sex and age...the young martyr's conscience would not allow her to purchase life at the sacrifice demanded by the cruel bigoted Queen...the artist doubtless intends to suggest by the book lying open in her lap that Lady Jane has been drawing her arguments from the Bible or her favourite Greek Testament; whilst we may assume the ponderous tome held by the Bishop to contain the writings of one of the Church Saints or Fathers. The parchment roll he holds in the other hand we may set down as Mary's warrant offering the conditional pardon. The standing female is Lady Throckmorton, who was in attendance on Lady Jane and imprisoned with her for treason'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.