3-079-644 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Head of a Bald Man - Study for Lord Patrick Lindsay of the Byres and Lord William Ruthven compelling Mary, Queen of Scots to sign her Abdication in the Castle of Loch Leven, c1824. Sir Walter Scott's "The Abbot" provides the subject for Allan's oil painting "Lord Patrick Lindsay of the Byres and Lord William Ruthven compelling Mary, Queen of Scots to sign her Abdication in the Castle of Loch Leven" (1824). This chalk drawing is a preparatory study for the painting, which depicts the moment when a deputation of nobles led by Lindsay visit Mary at Loch Leven to force her abdication in favour of her infant son, James VI.