Record ID:
284060
Accession number:
MA 840.1
Published:
[18--?]
Description:
1 print : engraving ; 198 x 135 mm
Notes:
The engraver's name is cut off but starts "Roc."
Written on a plaque under the portrait: "Wood notes wild / Better a wee bush than nae bield."
After a painting by Alexander Nasmyth.
Bound with another print, a letter from Burns to Agnes Craig M'Lehose, and a letter from Agnes Craig M'Lehose to Burns. These are cataloged separately as MA 840.2-4.
Summary:
Head-and-shoulders oval portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns facing slightly left. Below him are a scythe, sickle, rake, harp, drum, horn, and open book.
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