Record ID:
294075
Accession number:
MA 50.29
Published:
London : Published as the Act directs, 1798.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description:
1 print : engraving ; 379 x 262 mm
Notes:
Decorative border of engraving and most of "Painted" has been trimmed off.
Engraving to be sold by R. Wilkinson of Cornhill and A. Skelton of No. 23 Hay Market.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. See collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for full description.
Summary:
Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Burns after a painting by Alexander Nasmyth. With "Robert Burns" and a tableau of a mourning lady with a unicorn, a decorative urn, and a sprig of thistle engraved below.
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