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Description: | Robert Burns, was born in Alloway, on 25th. Jan. 1759 son of a market gardener. He became a working farmer himself in Mauchline after toiling in his fathers fields from a young age. In 1788, he married Jean Armour and had 9 children of whom only 3 survived into adulthood.
This stylized engraving shows the poet in an unlikely garb for the agricultural task of managing a plough on an Ayrshire farm.
This coloured engraving by William Giller based on a painting by Charles Hancock in 1853, shows Robert Burns standing beside a plough with two horses having a break. The quotation 'and stood with his hand on the plough and his heart with the Muse' is appended. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1853-01-01 - 1853-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Framed engraving (coloured) titled 'Robe | Go to resource |
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