The Sobieskis and Stuarts, Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, George Vertue, 1735

drawn and engraved by George Vertue
copperplate on paper, 1735
private collection

This 18th-century etching depicting Mary, Queen of Scots, also comes from ‘The History of England’. Like the portrait of Mary’s second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the engraving by George Vertue (1684–1756) exemplifies the later iconography of historical monarchs, including the ancestors of one of the central figures of this exhibition, James III/VIII.