Mary, Queen of Scots escaping Lochleven Castle (from "The History of England")

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This engraving shows William Douglas (son of Sir William Douglas) helping Mary Queen of Scots to escape from Lochleven Castle. While confined there for eleven months in 1566-67 she had been forced to abdicate in favor of her infant son James. Douglas masterminded the queen's escape from the island fortress on May 2, 1568. The print was based on an eighteenth-century painting by Robert Smirke, reengraved here to illustrate Thomas Gaspey's "The History of England: from the text of Hume and Smollett, to the Reign of George III" (1830, with later editions in 1852-54 and 1860).

Mary, Queen of Scots escaping Lochleven Castle (from "The History of England"), John Rogers (British, active ca. 1810–61), Etching

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