Margaret of Scotland, c 1483 Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Illustration from The Life and

Illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria Vol II

wearing a shoulder length wig

View in Redcross Street looking south to Fore Street showing the tower of St Giles without Cripplegate

The painting is titled and annotated 'Squalus Acanthius

Margaret of Scotland, c 1483 Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Illustration from The Life andMargaret of Scotland, c 1483, (1910). Margaret was the Danish queen of James III of Scotland. Her headdress is an intermediate style between the butterfly and the pyramidal. It developed from the horned, or rather forked, headdress the cleft at the upper part being now closed up. The cauls are embellished with pearls. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).