Mary, Queen of Scots (from "Famiani Stradae Romani E Societate Jesu De Bello Belgico Decas Secunda," folio 466)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 2 5/8 in. (11.4 × 6.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958
Accession Number
58.549.96
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate engraving depicts Mary, Queen of Scots (154–1587), a figure in 16th-century European history known for her dramatic life as a Catholic monarch amid Protestant turmoil. Captured here in a small vignette format (just 4½ × 2⅝ inches), it appears on folio 466 *Famiani Stradae Romani e Societate Jesu Bello Belgico Decasunda*, a 1650 scholarly work by Italian Jesuit historian Famiano Strada Published by Sumptibus Hermanni Scheus, the multi-volume history chronicles the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries, weaving in portraits of key royals to illustrate the era's intricate politics—...