Robert Burns and His Highland Mary.

PrinterPrinted by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg American, 1840 - 1867

PublisherPublished by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg American, 1840 - 1867

After a work byAfter a work by Robert Edmonstone English, 1795 - 1834

Date1840-1844

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 12 1/4 x 9 1/16in. (31.1 x 23cm)
Sheet (height x width): 14 1/4 x 9 7/8in. (36.2 x 25.1cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection

DescriptionA young man sits on the grassy bank of a lake or river. He wears a short jacket, a shirt and tie, plaid garters, breeches, and hose. A round hat with a plaid brim is at the far right. His right arm is around the waist of a young woman wearing a white bodice and skirt with a wide sash. Her plaid fringed shawl is at the left. She wears a ribbon and two roses in her hair. Additional flowers grow at the right near large tree trunks.

Object number1995.182.1

InscribedRecto: Lithographed title beneath image: "ROBERT BURNS AND HIS HIGHLAND MARY. / How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk, / How richly the hawthorn blossom, / As underneath their fragrant shade / I clasp'd her to my bosom."

Verso: Inscribed in pencil, upper left: "Box 22 / #1"; lower right: "Dwr 10"; old and new accession numbers inscribed in pencil, lower center.NotesSubject Note: The son of a farmer, Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Scotland on 25 January 1759. Although poor, he read widely, and by 1781, had begun to write poetry. His Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, were an immediate success when they were published in 1786. He died at Dumfries, Scotland on 21 July 1796 at the age of 37.

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