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Description: | Black and white etching of a bust portrait of Robert Burns, from an original painting by Naysmith. On the rear of the picture there is a label indicating that this was the property of Erm Prof William Jack, 5 St. Johns Terrace, Glasgow.
"Engraving after Nasmyth's 1787 portrait of Burns. The two men were close friends both central figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840) was major Scottish neo-classical landscape and later proto-Picturesque landscape painter. Trained at Trustees Academy and worked for A. Ramsay. He began however as a portrait painter and worked principally in that genre until c.1790. Zeitter is unknown as an engraver."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Acquisition source: Jack, William Professor | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1839-1839 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Zeiter, John (engraver) | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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