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Description: | Robert Burns Scotland's National Poet spent the last years of his life in Dumfries. While faming at Ellisland in 1789 aged 30 years, he took up an appointment as an excise officer. He travelled widely on horseback over the Dumfries area perhaps covering as many as 200 miles per week.
Tam o' Shanter is probably the most popular of the characters from Burns's works and has inspired many artists to capture the atmospheric and evocative images presented in this masterpiece of storytelling.
This painting of Burns's Tam o' Shanter character by John Drummond, RSA (1816-1877) depicts the scene where the drunken farmer on his horse Meg is pursued over the Brig o' Doon by the witch Nannie ('Cutty Sark'). This comic tale is perhaps the most famous of the works of Robert Burns. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1860-01-01 - 1880-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Painting in oils of Tam o' Shanter by Jo | Go to resource |
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