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Description: | In the years following his death, Robert Burns' admirers came to believe that his simple grave was an insufficient memorial to the poet. In 1813, John Syme formed a committee and launched an appeal to build a mausoleum in his memory. One of the subscribers was the Prince Regent, later George IV. After a public advertisement, over 50 designs were received and the plans of T F Hunt, a London architect were approved.
At the time this was printed the development of steel plate engraving made it possible for images to be reproduced in much greater numbers than previous printing technology had allowed.
Burns Mausoleum became a place of pilgrimage for visitors to Dumfries. This view of the mausoleum is engraved from a painting by D O Hill RSA and shows the mausoleum in its corner of the old churchyard with gravestones of both earlier and later dates in the foreground. A stonemason is at work as a woman looks on. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1845-01-01 - 1860-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | 'The Mausoleum of Burns, Dumfries', c 18 | Go to resource |
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