Title: La Reine Qui Va a la Place de Son Execution (The Queen Going to the Place of Her Execution)
Artist: Antonio Zecchin, after John Francis Rigaud
Date: no date
Medium: Stipple engraving on paper
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Item description: The Queen, holding a crucifix in her right hand, approaches the executioner's block, with her steward, Melvil, kneeling beside it on the left, commissioners and weeping ladies-in-waiting behind to right.

Inscription -
French: Lendant qu'elle marchait accompagnée par les Comimissaires et autres Gentils - hommes, elle recontra son maître d' Hôtel Melvil, à gui depuis trois semaines on lui avait défendu de la voir. Il tomba à genoux, en donnant des marques de la plus vive doleur, et du plus cruel déséspoir. Melvil, mon bon serviteur, hi dit la Reine ne pleure pas, mais réjours-toi plutôt de voir bientôt terminées les peines de Marie Stuard.

English: While she was walking accompanied by the Commissioners and other Gentlemen, she met her butler Melvil, at whom for three weeks she had been forbidden to see her. He fell to his knees, showing signs of the deepest pain and the cruelest despair. Melvil, my good servant, he said the Queen, do not cry, but rather look forward to seeing the sorrows of Marie Stuard soon come to an end.