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The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Maker

(artist)
1742-1810

(engraver)
1766-1814

(publisher)

Title

The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Date of Production

20.4.1791

Medium

stipple engraving

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 24.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5461.5

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: lower left, artist: J F Rigaud RA. Pinx.

Inscription: recto: lower right, engraver: W.N. Gardiner Sc.

Inscription: recto: centre, description, date, publisher : The Head, after two strokes, is severed from the body, and being shown to the people in the hall / the Earl Marshal cries our, So let Queen Elizabeth's Enimies perist,' and the Dean answering, 'Amen', the Soldier, with the Multitude signing / and sorrowing, begin their march in triumph. / Published as the Act directs April 20, 1790, by T. Monzani, No. 1 Duke Street, Grovensor Square.

Inscription: recto: typewritten, lower centre, title : Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

Inscription: recto: handwritten in blue ink, lower right : RA1791/571/c

Stamp: recto: stamped in black, right: WITT / LIBRARY.

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