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Solway Firth, Embarkation of Queen Mary, engraved by John Smith after Henry Melville (1837)

From: Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels, vol II (London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1838) (facing p. 70).

The image depicts Mary Queen of Scots and her followers about to cross the Solway Firth following the Battle of Langside, as described in The Abbot, chapter 38.