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Description: | Robert Burns, the Scottish Poet, was born in Alloway, Ayrshire on 25th. January 1759 in a small thatched cottage which was built by his father William Burnes a market gardener at the time. Robert who became a farmer left a legacy of songs, poems and letters became Scotland's greatest poet dying at the early age of 37.
The statue by Lawson in Ayr built up a reputation as being one of the more successful Burns sculptures and was the model for many other such statues around the world notably in Melbourne (Australia), Detroit (USA) and Vancouver, Montreal and Winnipeg (Canada).
A reduced size plaster model by George A. Lawson of the statue of Robert Burns erected in Burns Statue Square, Ayr. Provided to the Ayr Burns Club Committee by Lawson for the selection competition and later given to the Burns Monument Trust. The full size statue was unveiled in 1891. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1890-01-01 - 1890-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Plaster model of reduced statue of Rober | Go to resource |
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