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Drawings Gold and enamel ring of Mary, Queen of Scots

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.78

Production date

Circa 1810

Material

paper
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 255mm
Width: 192mm
Height (of Mount): 298mm
Width (of Mount): 237mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Ring given by Mary Queen of Scots to one of the Ancestors of the Mansfield family, vide his letter. This drawing was presented to the Society by the late Earl.
Nov. 15. 1810.

Inscription content

size of the original.

Inscription content

WL
1842

References

Reference (free text)

Joan Evans, A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870 2nd edn. (London: Faber and Faber, 1970), pp. 116.See pl. V, opp. p. 104, and pl. VI for illustrations of a possibly related object.

Reference (free text)

Albert Way, 'The Signet-Ring and Silver Bell of Mary, Queen of Scots', Archaeological Journal 15 (1858): 253-66.

Reference (free text)

'Presents to the Society', Archaeologia 16 (1810): 372.