'Queen Mary's Elopement', 1897. Creator: John Leech.
'Queen Mary's Elopement', 1897. Mary leaves under cover of darkness, and is helped into a boat by a tartan-clad man, possibly Lord Bothwell. (Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was married three times. Her third husband was Scottish nobleman James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]
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