Memorial in Westminster Abbey to Jane Pultney, Lady Crewe (d.1639) by Epiphanius Evesham
James Cole (fl.1715 - 1774)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
350 x 210 mm
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286946
Summary
Print, engraving, Memorial in Westminster Abbey to Jane Pultney, Lady Crewe (d.1639) by Epiphanius Evesham by James Cole (fl.1720-1743). Engraving of a carved wall memorial in Westminster Abbey to 'The Lady Jane Crewe' The inscription is in Latin, dated 1639. Plate mark. The Latin inscription can be translated: "Lady Jane Crewe, eminently distinguished for her piety, her beauty, and her modesty, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Pultney of Misterton Pultney, Leicestershire, Kt., granddaughter of Sir Fortescue of Salden, Buckinghamshire, Kt. by his daughter Margery; mother of John, Anne and Ranulph Crewe who survive her, and of Frances Crewe who died in earliest infancy and is buried with her. Her sorrowing husband Sir Clipsby Crewe placed this monument to the best of wives, in affection and in admiration for her virtues. She died in the thirtieth year of her age, on the second day of December 1639". On the monument is an alto-relief of Jane lying on her deathbed while her husband and three children are seated, standing or kneeling in front. They surround a sarcophagus on which lies a naked child (presumably the young daughter Frances). The coats of arms of Crewe and Pulteney are shown. (Westminster Abbey history)
Marks and inscriptions
The Lady Jane Crewe
Makers and roles
James Cole (fl.1715 - 1774), engraver (printmaker) after Epiphanius Evesham (Wellington 1570 - 1634), sculptor