The murder of Simon Sudbury at the Tower of London in 1381. Coloured lithograph.
- Date:
- [1845]
- Reference:
- 42803i
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Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, was killed in the Peasants' Revolt. He was dragged from the Tower of London to Tower Hill nearby and beheaded. "They also murdered the Prior of St John's, and a Franciscan friar, a doctor of physic, as represented in the illumination" (Humphreys, loc. cit.). In the present depiction two of the turrets of the Tower of London are shown in the left background
Publication/Creation
[London] : [W. Smith], [1845]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 9.5 x 7.4 cm
Lettering
Quant ce vint le vendredy au matin ce peuple qui etoit logie en la place sainte Katherine devant la tour du chatel. The murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 42803i
Reproduction note
Facsimile of a page in a manuscript of Jean de Froissart, Chronicles
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