Plaster copy of Henry Snell Gamley statue of Robert Burns
Key details
- Object number
- 3.5015
- Date
- 1928
- On display
- No
- Object number
- 3.5015
- Date
- 1928
- On display
- No
Description
Full length plaster 12 inch statue of Robert Burns. White, with a stamp on the rear 'H.S. Gamley RSA, 1928'.
This small plaster statue of Robert Burns is a copy of the original bronze sculpted by Henry Snell Gamley (1865-1928) which was erected in Cheyenne, Wyoming in November 1929. Commissioned by an Ayrshire born widow of an American cattle rancher.
Henry Snell Gamley had been a pupil of DW Stevenson and became a leading Scottish bronze sculptor involved in another Burns related sculpture, the memorial to Clarinda in Canongate churchyard, Edinburgh unveiled in 1922.
Object information
Category
Material
Measurements
- Depth: 9.7(cm)
- Height: 34(cm)
- Width: 12.5(cm)
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