Portrait of King James II, of Scotland, 1430-1460. Dressed in doublet and hose, a wide-brimmed hat, jeweled chain on his chest, crakows or poulaines on his feet. With a stag supporting an armorial shield of the Scottish arms, view of islands and ships beyond. Iacobus dei Gratia, Scotor, etc. Rex. Engraved from a scarce print by Dominicus Custos in the possession of the antiquarian George Chalmers. Copperplate engraving by Adams from John Smith’s Iconographia Scotica, or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, London, 1798.

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