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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National poet was born in Alloway Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet was to write a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
It was presented to the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway by Mr. Gilbert Burns Begg, Motherwell; formerly in the possession of his grandmother, Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the Poet.
This silhouette on paper is set in a gilt frame. It was drawn by Samuel Houghton. Noted on the reverse in the hand of Grace Burns Begg is the inscription 'Burns as Grandmother remembered him'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1810-01-01 - 1830-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Robert Burns: Silhouette on paper | Go to resource |
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