SINCONA Auktion 96

Beschreibung

James I. 1603-1625. Silver Medal n. d. (1615), 45.50 g. The death of Lady Arabella Stuart. Unsigned. Three-quarter length figure of a female in rich dress and collar. O . GOD . GRANT . PATIENCE . IN . THAT . I . SVFFER . VRANG . Rv. Inscription in six lines: . QVHO . CAN . COMPARE VITH · ME . IN . GREIF I . DIE . AND . DAR . NOCHT . SEIK . RELEIF . With legend: HOVRT . NOT . THE . © . QVHOIS . IOY . THOV . ART . Plain edge. 50.7 mm. Eimer -. MI i 207/41. Selten / Rare. Gutes vorzüglich / About Uncirculated. Geprägt auf vorgegossenem Schrötling und ziseliert / Struck on a pre-cast flan and chased.

Purchased from Seaby, London, March 1990, lot M36.

Lady Arabella Stuart (1575 - 25 September 1615) was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I of England. During the reign of King James VI and I (her first cousin), she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant to the English throne, in secret. King James imprisoned William Seymour and placed Arabella under house arrest. When she and her husband tried to escape England, she was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she died at age 39.

All known specimen of this piece are modern, but perhaps from some contemporary original.