Tam Glen.

PrinterPrinted by D. W. Kellogg & Co. American, 1830 - 1840

PublisherPublished by D. W. Kellogg & Co. American, 1830 - 1840

Date1830-1840

MediumLithography; printer's ink on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 1/4 x 7 3/4in. (18.4 x 19.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 17 1/4 x 12 1/2in. (43.8 x 31.8cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of Samuel St. John Morgan

DescriptionA man and a woman, apparently husband and wife, stand in the interior of a room, apparently a kitchen. The man, at the left, is wearing a Scottish cap, a jacket, a striped vest, and a tie. The woman, at the right, wears an apron over a plaid dress and has a plaid ribbon tied around her head. An open door is in the left background. An open window is in the right background. A basket, a bucket, and a vase are on a cupboard in the corner.

Object number1946.11.24

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "TAM GLEN. / My minnie does constantly deave me, / And bids me beware o' young men; / They flatter, she says, to deceive me, / But wha can think sae of Tam Glen! / There's Lowrie, the laird o'Drumeller, / 'Guid day to you, brute!' he comes ben: / He brags and be blaws o' his siller, / But when will he dance like Tam Glen! / Burns' Songs."
On verso, inscribed in pencil: upper left, "Print / Box 2 / #10"; lower right, "Dwr 10"; lower left, accession number.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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