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Tomb of Mary Queen of Scots, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Tomb of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-87, detail, a cast of the original in Westminster Abbey, London, made 1606-12 by Cornelius and William Cure, in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. The effigy depicts the queen wearing a coif and a ruff with her cloak fastened by a brooch and the lion of Scotland at her feet. The tomb was commissioned by her son, king James VI, and was a symbol of rehabilitation many years after her execution in 1587. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Tomb of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-87, detail, a cast of the original in Westminster Abbey, London, made 1606-12 by Cornelius and William Cure, in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. The effigy depicts the queen wearing a coif and a ruff with her cloak fastened by a brooch and the lion of Scotland at her feet. The tomb was commissioned by her son, king James VI, and was a symbol of rehabilitation many years after her execution in 1587. Picture by Manuel Cohen