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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. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 tears.
This illustration which is on display in the Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway was acquatinted by Robert Scott and published by Robert Chapman, Glasgow.
The scene show of the Cottage is the earliest known illustration of the Cottage and was drawn on the spot by William Score in 1801, just 5 years after the Poet died in Dumfries. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1801-01-01 - 1801-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Drawing entitled 'The House in which Bur | Go to resource |
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