The Plundering of Basing House - Needlework

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Family heirloom currently in the personal possession of Jennifer Louise Crews. This artwork is a needlepoint reproduction of The Plundering of Basing House by Charles Landseer[1]. Believed to have been completed circa 1852 by Josephine Hawes when she was about 17 years old.[2]

The Plundering of Basing House is an oil painting on canvas finished sometime prior to 1836. It measures 1028 × 1280 mm, and is currently in the possession of the Tate Museam.[3] It depicts the plundering of the Basing House by Oliver Cromwell in 1645.[4]

The Basing house is located at Basing House, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, and was placed under siege three time on 6 November 1643–15 November 1643, 4 June 1644–15 November 1644, and October 1645 during the First English Civil War when Oliver Cromwell breached it's defenses. During the two years of the siege, upwards of 2,000 Parliamentarians were slain and once through killed about a quarter of the 400 members of the garrison, including ten priests. During the assault the House caught fire and was badly damaged. What remained was "totally slighted and demolished" by order of Parliament, with the stones of the House offered free to anyone who would cart them away. [5]

Related Documents

  • Masterpeice of Needlework

  1. ↑ Citation:The Plundering of Basing House - Charles Landseer.jpg/citation listing
  2. ↑ Citation:The Boston Globe Sun Nov 21 1915 .jpg
  3. ↑ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landseer-the-plundering-of-basing-house-n00612
  4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Basing_House
  5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Basing_House
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