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Mary Queen of Scots, receiving from Lord Buckhurst & Beale the sentence of Death pronounced against her & ratified by Parliament

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1854,0812.192

• Title (object)

  • Mary Queen of Scots, receiving from Lord Buckhurst & Beale the sentence of Death pronounced against her & ratified by Parliament

• Description

  Mary Queen of Scots on the left, rising from a seat where she has been reading, her ladies beside her in attitudes of distress, looking graciously to right towards the two lords who bring her news of her impending execution, the foremost holding a scroll, with a man leaning against the doorpost and two guards in the background; after Stothard. 1794
  Stipple and etching

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• Producer name

  • Print made by: Thomas Gaugain
  • Published by: Thomas Philipe
  • After: Thomas Stothard

• School/style

  • British

• Date

  • 1794

• Production place

  • Published in: London
  • (Europe,British Isles,England,London)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • stipple
  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 420 millimetres
  • Width: 475 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered below the image with the title in English and French and 'Stothard invt. / Gaugain sculpt. / Pub. April 1794, by Tho. Philipe, Pall Mall Court, London.'.

• Location

  Not on display (British XVIIIc Unmounted Imp)

• Associated names

  • Representation of: Mary, Queen of Scots

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: A E Evans & Sons

• Acquisition date

  1854

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1854,0812.192