Wooden armchair with curved arms, painted with Burns quote
Key details
- Object number
- 3.4508
- Date
- 1993
- On display
- Yes
- Object number
- 3.4508
- Date
- 1993
- On display
- Yes
Description
Wooden armchair with curved arms, square shaped back panel with Burns quotation, on rectangular legs to back and squared legs to front.
It is a replica of the nursing chair used by Mrs Agnes Burns; mother of the poet. Quotation on chair reads as follows,
'His clean hearth-stone,
his thrifty Wifie's smile,
The lisping infant,
prattling on his knee,
Does a' his weary kiaugh
and care beguile,
And makes him quite forget
his labor and his toil.
Quotation from 'The Cotter's Saturday Night.'
This Chair is a replica of the one used by Mrs Agnes Burnes to nurse her children. This chair came into the posession of Sir James Stuart Menteth when Gilbert Burns, the brother of the Poet, left the farm of Mossgeil.
The replica was manufactured as part of the Burns Cottage refurbishment, 1993.
his thrifty Wifie's smile,
The lisping infant,
prattling on his knee,
Does a' his weary kiaugh
and care beguile,
And makes him quite forget
his labor and his toil.
Quotation from 'The Cotter's Saturday Night.'
This Chair is a replica of the one used by Mrs Agnes Burnes to nurse her children. This chair came into the posession of Sir James Stuart Menteth when Gilbert Burns, the brother of the Poet, left the farm of Mossgeil.
The replica was manufactured as part of the Burns Cottage refurbishment, 1993.
Object information
Acquisition
1993
Category
Material
Measurements
- Depth: 65(cm)
- Height: 91(cm)
- Width: 56.2(cm)
Themes
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