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Description: | The subjects of this cabinet card are Jane Emma Burns, Mrs Brown, who was the daughter of Robert Burns junior, the poet's eldest son and her eldest daughter, Jean Armour Burns Brown. She was said to bear an uncanny resemblance to her famous forebear.
Cabinet cards were almost always made from studio portraits. They were produced to be sold or exchanged and were collected in elaborate albums, specially made for the purpose, often with window mounts to display the cards. This cards bears an inscription in Dr T B Grierson's handwriting describing how he acquired it from Mr Robert Hamilton of Dumfries.
This cabinet card is originally from the collection of Dr Thomas Boyle Grierson of Thornhill, whose father, William Grierson, was a friend and supporter of Robert Burns. Dr Grierson was a prominent local antiquarian and member of the Burns movement in the later part of the nineteenth century. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1875-01-01 - 1881-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Reverse of cabinet card, Jane Emma Burns | Go to resource |
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