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Mary, Queen of Scots
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Mary, Queen of Scots, naked to the waist and with a crown on her head, is depicted as a mermaid—commonly used for whorish sirens—in this allegorical sketch based upon a scabrous placard that first appeared in March of 1567. Mary had aroused indignation in Scotland when she married James, Earl of Bothwell, widely thought to have killed her second husband, Lord Darnley. In a separate sketch Bothwell is represented as a hare, the crest of his family the Hepburns. |