Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. Jewels dating to the Scottish Renaissance can help convey ...
"The scene of this picture is laid in the abbey of fotheringhay, the last of the numerous doleful prisons in which this lovely but unfortunate queen was immured, and the prison in which she ended her ...
Catalogue of the Art Exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair, in aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. New York: 1864. https://siris-artexhibition.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...