MARY STUART QUEEN OF SCOTS SCOTLAND LOCHLEVEN CASTLE ~ 1860 Art Print Engraving

Description: MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS IN LOCHLEVEN CASTLE Artist: Rubino ____________ Engraver: J. Rogers NOTE: The title in the box above is also in the white border below this scene. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE 19th CENTURY ENGLISH EVENTS OR BATTLE SCENE ANTIQUE PRINTS LIKE THIS ONE!! PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed in 1860; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches, image size is 4 1/8 by 5 5/8 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receive priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! PRINT DESCRIPTION: Barely a few weeks after Darnley’s death, Bothwell intercepted Mary on her way back from visiting her infant son and took her to Dunbar Castle. It would be the last time she would ever see her child. Mary and Bothwell were married on 15 May at Holyrood according to Protestant rites. This third, final and disastrous marriage brought about her inevitable ruin as the Protestant Scots Lords rose in rebellion against her and Mary was forced to surrender at Carberry Hill on 15 June 1567. Bothwell was given safe passage from the field and driven into exile whilst crowds denounced Mary as an adulteress and murderer before she was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle and forced to abdicate in favour of her son. Whilst at Lochleven Mary suffered a miscarriage, losing twins. Her first attempt to escape Lochleven, whilst disguised as a washerwoman, was thwarted when a boatman spotted her white hands beneath rags. However, as escapes go, her second attempt was rather more successful… A second attempt at escape from Lochleven on 2 May 1568, which involved drugging half the island with hearty doses of wine whilst young Willie Douglas pegged all the boats to the shore bar one, was markedly more successful. Once more in disguise, Mary walked out of the gates of the castle in full view, in the midst of the May Day festivities that the young boy had arranged, with himself cast as the ‘Abbot of Unreason’. Dancing around the table in the great hall, he flung his handkerchief over the keys to the castle gates as Sir William Douglas dozed drunkenly beside them. Mary regained her freedom as a result of this highly daring escapade, having been on Lochleven for almost a year. George and Willie Douglas followed her to freedom and she was soon reunited with several of the noble lords who had held fast to her cause, and spirited away to the safety of the castle of Niddry. She enjoyed a little under a fortnight of her hard-won freedom before being beaten by herhalf-brother’s forces in battleat the village of Langside, just outside of Glasgow. Watching from a nearby hill as her men were cut down in an ambush organised by Kirkcaldy of Grange, not to mention possible treachery and dissent within her own ranks, Mary for once lost her legendary bottle and broke into a cross-country flight that finally ended up in Dundrennan Abbey near the Solway Firth. From there, despite the protestations of the lord and nobles who had scarpered with her, she made the decision to cross into England and throw herself on her cousin Elizabeth’s mercy; this being the same Elizabeth who had expressed outrage at the way Mary had been manhandled by her nobles whilst at the same time engaging in a bidding war with Catherine de Medici to buy Mary’s famous string of black pearls – Elizabeth won. The small party comprising about fifteen or sixteen various Scottish lords and attendants, not to mention Mary herself, commandeered a small fishing boat from the commendator of the former Cistercian monastery, Edward Maxwell of Terregles. After much to-ing and fro-ing in regards to the fraught nature of her plan – the lords were far more of a mind that Mary should seek help from France – they set sail from the mouth of the Abbey Burnfoot, where the monks had once shipped out wool and other agricultural necessities to Europe. In order to get to England the party had to cross the Solway Firth, a journey that took them a little over four hours. During the crossing Mary apparently had a premonition of the awful fate that awaited her in England and demanded that the boat be turned so that they could make for France instead, but by that time powerful winds had taken hold of them and she was unable to escape her date with destiny. A FAMOUS HISTORICAL MOMENT FROM ENGLAND’S PAST!

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