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Description: | The tale of Tam o' Shanter was written by Burns to accompany a piece by Captain Grose which described the ruined Kirk at Alloway in his book 'The Antiquities of Scotland'. It describes a drunken farmer's homeward ride through Alloway and his encounters with the witches he disturbs in the Alloway Kirkyard.
The 9 foot tall bronze statue of Burns in George Square was sculpted by George E. Ewing (1828-1884). Later about the turn of the century, His younger brother James A. Ewing ((1843-1900) added three bas-relief panels in bronze based on popular poems by Burns.
This plaster panel is a copy of the basso-relief at the foot of the Burns statue in George Square in Glasgow which was unveiled on 25th January, 1877 in front of a crowd of 30,000. The scene depicted is from the Burns poem of Tam o' Shanter. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 01/01/1900 - 31/12/1900 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Plaster copy of the Tam o' Shanter panel | Go to resource |
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