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Printing plate
copper plate The Cenotaph of Lord Darnley

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.137

Artist/Designer/Maker

Vertue, George - Engraver

Production date

1743

Material

copper

Technique

Engraving
Etching

Dimensions

height: 446mm
width: 582mm

Location

Burlington House -

Content description

Printing plate depicting the cenotaph of Lord Darnley; the Earl and Countess of Lennox praying beside the tomb of their son Lord Darnley, together with their grandson James VI of Scotland (later James I of England); with signs of repoussage on the reverse.

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Magnates et heroes Regali Scotiae et Angliae prognati, qui juxta cenotaphium Henrici Darnley Scotorum Regis effinguntur; parentes ejus Matthaeus Come Lenoxiae cum uxore Margareta frater, Carolus infansque filius Jacobus tunc Scotiae postea vero Britanniae Rex ejus nominis primus; omnes flexis genibus Deum orantes nefariae caedis vindicem. Tabulae hujus Archetypum, jussu Matthaei Stuart Comitis Lenoxiae anno MDLXXI depictum, Serenissima Regina Carolina anno MDCCXXXVI in Palatio Kensigntoniae posteris sacrant [...]

Inscription content

Levinus Venetianus me Fecit

Inscription content

Geo Vertue del et Sculp

References

Reference (controlled)

Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.
    Printing plate depicting the cenotaph of Lord Darnley; the Earl and Countess of Lennox praying beside the tomb of their son Lord Darnley, together with their grandson James VI of Scotland (later James I of England); with signs of repoussage on the reverse.
    Based on the picture at Goodwood by Livinus de Vogelaare, of which there is another version given to Queen Caroline c. 1736, which was initially at Kensington Palace.