Sujet
Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 (1882-1884). Artist: Unknown
Légende
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
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C55_284
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,2Mo (5,9Mo) / 27,6cm x 45,6cm / 3255 x 5391 (300dpi)