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- Museum number
- Mm,15.161
- Title
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Object: Magnates et heroes Regali Scotiae et Angliae Prognati ...
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Series: Historical Portraitures
- Description
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The cenotaph of Henry, Lord Darnley, with Matthew Earl of Lenox and his wife Margareta, Darnley's father and mother, kneeling side by side on the right, their son Charles behind them and their grandson, James I in front of them, wearing the crown and coronation robes ith the sceptre on a cushion in front of him, all praying before a cross on the altar to left, held by the risen Christ; with figures carrying standards in a landscape inset in a frame in the lower right, a plaque describing the murder of Darnley hanging on the wall to left and another plaque, hanging from a ring in the wall to right, describing the commission of the painting; republished state. 1743, this state 1776
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1743
- Dimensions
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Height: 443 millimetres
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Width: 574 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the set see 2006,U.782.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818 (circa)
- Acquisition notes
- Although traditionally recorded as coming from the Banks collection, this is most probably one of the many gifts made to the BM by the Society of Antiquaries of its own publications.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Mm,15.161
