An engraving of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany. Bust length with short hair, plumed cap, lace collar, and embroidered robes edged in ermine. Within an oval border with coat of arms above and with English inscription below. Cut down. The first state carried the address of the publisher George Humble, the second state that of William Peake. This print is lettered around the portrait: "ILLUSTR: PRIN: HEN: STEWARD. DOMIN' DARNLEY DUX AL: BANIÆ. OBIIT 1566."; beneath the portrait: "The / Pourtraicture of the right Excellent Prince. … / and Ireland King. Knight of the noble order of St Michael."

During the late 1610s and 1620s, publisher Compton Holland oversaw the production of a series of portraits for publication in what came to be known as the Baziliologia. The first frontispiece dated 1618 presents the full title as : Baziliologia, a Booke of Kings, beeing the true and lively effigies of all our English kings from the Conquest untill this present with their severall coats of armes, impreses and devises and a brief chronologie of their lives and deaths.

No copy of the 1618 edition is known, and after Holland's death in 1628 a second edition was published with text by William Martyn, the plates were later acquired by Thomas Geele, who published a third edition in 1630. Holland's octavo portraits were engraved by the pre-eminent engravers working in England, and their work came to epitomise and dominate portrait print publication for decades. Throughout successive editions, more portraits were added to the series. The Royal Collection holds a series of 238 prints linked to the Baziliologia, see RCINs 680452-680690.

The print formed part of an album of British royal portrait prints assembled by Cassiano and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo in Rome. Described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Kings of England and their Families from Henry VII to James II, the album was arranged chronologically, with kings and their consorts together. It was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and its prints incorporated into the series of Engraved Royal Portraits (organised dynastically).

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1357.