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Engraving Shanter Farm and Bay, Carrick, by William Richardson

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Object number
3.8242
Date
1800
On display
No
Maker
Hill, David Octavius (Artist)

Description

Engraving Shanter Farm and Bay, Carrick. Shows view over bay with figures in foreground. W Richardson, after image by David Octavius Hill.

In one of his illustrations for the 1840 publication ‘The Land of Burns’, the artist and pioneer photographer David Octavius Hill imagined the farmer and smuggler Douglas Graham and his companions about to set off from the coast of Carrick. On foot and speaking with the smugglers is the teenage Robert Burns. It is claimed that he later based his best-known character Tam o’Shanter on Douglas Graham.


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Measurements

  • 280mm x 215mm

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