The Coronation Procession of King Edward VI from the Tower of London to Westminster on February 19th 1547 (after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm)
James Basire the elder (London 1730 – London 1802)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1788
Materials
Engraving on paper
Measurements
644 x 1304 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1209623
Summary
Engraving, The Coronation Procession of King Edward VI from the Tower of London to Westminster on February 19th 1547 (after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm) by James Basire the elder (London 1730 – London 1802), 1788. Inscribed: Feb XIX MDXLVII / Engraved from an original co -eval painting at Cowdray Park in Sussex, the seat of the Lord Viscount Montague Drawn from the original by S.H. Grimm / Published by Act of Parliament, May 1st 1788. / Sumptibus Societatis Antiquariorum Londini. / The Description Behind the Print. Black bevelled frame, glazed. The original painting from which this was taken was destroyed in the 1793 fire at Cowdray Park. The Master of the Horse Sir Anthony Browne commissioned the painting as a series of murals at Cowdray, Sussex. In 1785, eight years before Cowdray was destroyed by fire, The Society of Antiquaries commissioned Grimm to make a record of the murals. His watercolour of the procession, complete with colour notes, survives in its collection. Basire’s engravings were published as part of the society’s series Vetusta Monumenta. The king is shown at the centre of the procession, to the left of the Eleanor Cross, riding beneath a fringed canopy supported by four horsemen. Moving from left to right (east to west) the procession makes its way from the Tower of London to Westminster Abbey for the coronation on the following day. Onlookers line the streets, crowd every window, from which sumptuous cloths and tapestries are hung, and perch precariously on gabled roofs. At street level the goldsmiths of Cheapside proudly display their wares in open shop fronts.
Provenance
Brought to Oxburgh by Mary Browne, daughter of Viscount Montague of Cowdray Park, on her marriage to Richard, 4th Baronet Bedingfeld; and thence by descent until presented to the National Trust by Sybil Lyne-Stephens, Lady Paston-Bedingfeld (1883 – 1985), 1952
Credit line
Oxburgh Hall, The Bedingfeld Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
The Procession of King Edward VI from the Tower of London to Westminster, Feb XIX MDXLVIII, previous to his coronation. Engraved from an original coeval painting at Cowdray Park in Sussex, the seat of Lord Viscount Montague
Makers and roles
James Basire the elder (London 1730 – London 1802) , engraver (printmaker) Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (Burgdorf 1733 – London 1794), artist
References
Ayloffe 1775 Joseph Ayloffe, ‘An Account of Some Ancient English Historical Paintings at Cowdry, in Sussex’, Archaeologia, 3, 1775, pp. 239-72 Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007, London 2007, p. 158 Nurse 2012 Bernard Nurse 'The Sherwin Brothers’ Copy of the Lost Mary Rose Wall Painting at Cowdray House' The Antiquaries Journal, Volume 92, September 2012, pp 371-384