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- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6096
- Title
- Object: Mary Queen of Scots mourning over the dying Douglas
- Description
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The Queen kneeling beside the dying soldier, who lies on the ground to right, supported by a bearded breast holding a cross, with a Bishop and other soldiers surrounding them, including a man in full armour and lowered visor on horseback; a woman in simple dress mourns a dead man in the extreme left; after Landseer; etched state dated 1841. 1844
Etching on chine collé
- Production date
- 1844
- Dimensions
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Height: 645 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 804 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The Lennox-Boyd database records also state with the title in italics, and 'Painted by C. Landseer, A.R.A. .. London, Published March 28th,, 1844, by Mary Parkes, at the Bowyer Gallery, 22, Golden Square, and at Paris, Chez A. Hauser, Fournisseur de la Bibliotheque du Roi, Boulevart des Italiens, No. 11, et Place de la Bourse, No. 11. // Engraved by John George Murray.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Battle of Langside 1568
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.6096