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Q. Mary's Escape from Lochleven Castle (Mary, Queen of Scots) NPG D13128

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Sharp, after Robert Smirke

Scenes of Mary's escape from Lochleven Castle were particularly popular with eighteenth-century history painters. Mary had spent ten months in captivity there in 1567-8 after an uprising of Scottish nobles following the murder of her second husband Lord Darnley and her marriage to the Earl of Bothwell. She eventually escaped from the castle in disguise, by boat. Robert Smirke's painting, reproduced in this engraving, was commissioned by Robert Bowyer as part of his 'Historic Gallery', a series of paintings of episodes from British history.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.