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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96), Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. Burns the farmer poet wrote a wealth of songs and poems in a short period of time and died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
The original oil painting by W.H. Midwood was painted in 1864 and currently hangs in the museum of Burns' birthplace in Alloway. A great deal of mystery even today surrounds the story of the poet and 'Highland Mary'.
This engraving depicts Burns on the banks of the Fail burn in Ayrshire who is seen being betrothed to Mary Campbell, a servant. In the picture they are seen exchanging bibles. They planned to emigrate to Jamaica but she contracted a fever and died in 1786 and was buried in a Greenock Churchyard. She was one of Burns' great loves. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1864-01-01 - 1864-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Copy of Midwood painting of 'Burns and H | Go to resource |
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