Title

Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 (1882-1884). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 (1882-1884). Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) married Francis, then Dauphin of France, in 1558. He became king the following year but died in 1560. Mary returned to Scotland but in 1567 was forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of James, her one year old son by her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and fled to England. As a Catholic with a claim to the throne of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Mary became a focus for plots, and was eventually imprisoned and executed. From a miniature in the collection of Gaignieres, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale. A print from La France et les Français à Travers les Siècles, Volume III, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1882

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C55_284

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,2Mb (5,9Mb) / 10,9in x 18,0in / 3255 x 5391 (300dpi)

Keywords

standing female women woman people black hat fashion religious country religion monarch costume clothes British color colour dead Scotland queen royal death Christianity dress location SCOTTISH Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic monarchy Britain royalty lady concept ruler Tudor ruff Roman Catholicism 16th century Scots sixteenth century The Print Collector Elizabethan executed sovereign Mary Mary Queen of Scots engraving portrait Unknown Mary Stuart Queen of Scots Mary Stewart Queen of Scots engraving portrait