Green Grow the Rashes.

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): 8 9/16 x 9in. (21.7 x 22.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 17 1/4 x 12 13/16in. (43.8 x 32.5cm)

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Credit LineGift of Samuel St. John Morgan

DescriptionA young man sits between two young women in a field of grass or rushes. He wears a short jacket, a striped vest, a shirt and tie, breeches, hose, and a Scottish cap with a plaid brim. The woman on the left has a plaid scarf tucked into the bodice of her dress. The woman on the right wears a long blouse over a plaid skirt.

Object number1946.11.25

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "GREEN GROW THE RASHES. / But gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms around my dearie O, / And warly cares, and warly men, / May a gae tapsalteerie, O! / Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e'er I spent, / Were spent amang the lasses, O! / Burns' Songs".
On verso, inscribed in pencil: upper left, "Print / Box 2 / #12"; 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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