Title: Marie reine d'Ecosse Etendue sur L'Echaffaut (Mary Queen of Scots lying on the Scaffold)
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: Marie reine d'Ecosse Etendue sur L'Echaffaut - from The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots in seven prints. Mary Queen of Scots kneeling on the left while a man kneeling in front steadies her blindfolded head on the block and the executioner stands over her with his axe raised, with spectators to right and weeping ladies to left.

Inscription -
French: La reine étendant le cou sur le bloc, répéta plusieurs fois, e'est à toi, mon Dieu que je donne mon ame.

English: The queen, stretching her neck on the block, repeated several times, it is to you, my God, that I give my soul.