Mary, Queen of Scots
1 portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary, Queen of Scots
by Elkington & Co, cast by Domenico Brucciani, after Cornelius and William Cure
electrotype, 1870, based on a work of circa 1606-1616
24 in. (610 mm) high
Given by John Hosack, 1870
Primary Collection
NPG 307
Sitterback to top
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), Reigned 1542-67. Sitter associated with 151 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Domenico Brucciani (1815-1880), Sculptor. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.
- Cornelius and William Cure (active 1606-1616), Sculptor. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
- Elkington & Co, Sculptors. Artist or producer associated with 22 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This electrotype is a copy from the head and shoulders of the marble tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey. It is one of a series of electrotype reproductions of tomb effigies made for the National Portrait Gallery by Elkington & Co in the 1870s. An electrotype sculpture of this type is made by electro-deposition of copper onto a mould or cast of an object. The electrotype could then be patinated like bronze.
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Linked publicationsback to top
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- Pointon, Marcia, Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-¿century England, 1993, p. 243 number 290
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 417
- Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 216
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Framing the Face: Collars and Ruffs (19 February 2016 - 16 July 2017)
- Queens and Consorts: Likeness in lIfe and Death (12 June 2013 - 2 March 2014)
- Mary, Queen of Scots: Fact and Fiction (24 August 2002 - 5 May 2003)
Events of 1606back to top
Current affairs
The Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham sentences Guy Fawkes to be hanged, drawn and quartered in the Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament.Creation of a union flag of England and Scotland prompts complaints from Scottish shipowners that the St. George cross obscures the saltire of St. Andrew.
Art and science
The Stationers' Company Register, which allowed publishers to register their rights to produce printed works, notes a performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, possibly the play's first appearance.Benjamin Johnson comic masterpiece, Volpone, premiers at the Globe Theatre.
International
Three ships belonging to The London Company set sail from London, to establish colonial settlements in North America. Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, enlists Robert Hunt as chaplain for the expedition. Hunt probably conducted the first known holy communion service in North America.Comments back to top
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