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Printing plate
copper plate The Procession for the Coronation of Edward VI from the Tower of London to Westminster

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.174

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Engraver
Grimm, S H - after

Production date

1788

Material

copper

Technique

engraved

Dimensions

height: 683mm
width: 1416mm

Location

Burlington House -

Content description

Printing plate depicting the procession for the coronation of Edward VI from the Tower of London to Westminster on February 19th, 1547

Inscriptions

Inscription content

The Coronation Procession of King Edward VI / from the Tower of London to Westminster, on Feb. XIX MDXLVII, previous to his Coronation

Inscription date

23/08/2023

Inscription content

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.

Inscription date

1788

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 procession for the coronation of Edward VI from the Tower of London to Westminster on February 19th, 1547
    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 Samuel Hieronymus Grimm to record the murals. His watercolour of the procession, complete with colour notes, survives in its collection. The king is shown at the centre of the procession, to the right of the Eleanor Cross, riding beneath a fringed canopy supported by four horsemen. Moving from right to left, 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.

    Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Dr Richard Goddard FSA.