Mary, Queen of Scots (from "Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine," volume IV)
Medium
Hand-colored etching with stipple
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 6 9/16 in. (25.6 × 16.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958
Accession Number
58.549.131
Tags
Art Historical Context
This hand-colored etching with stipple, titled *Mary, Queen of Scots captures the tragic 16th-century monarch in a portrait published in the 1834 *Court Magazine Monthly Critic and Lady's*, volume IV. Created by Edward Hargrave and. Page, the print measures about 10 by 6 inches and reflects the Victorian era's fascination with royal history. Measuring just 10 1/16 × 6 9/16 inches, it was a affordable luxury for middle-class readers, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1958 by Susan Dwight Bliss. Stuart (1542–1587), Queen of Scots, was a Catholic queen whose life of intrigue, imprisonment, a...