Plaster panel copy of 'A Cottars Saturday Night' by George E. Ewing

Key details

Object number: 3.5017
On display: No
Maker: Ewing, James A.

Description

A framed plaster copy of the low-relief 'A Cottars Saturday Night' panel at the base of Burns Statue in George Square, Glasgow. Inspired from Burns' poem 'A Cottars Saturday Night' and depicting a family in a cottage interior. In rectangular wooden display case.

This plaster panel is a copy of the basso-relief at the foot of the Burns statue in George Square in Glasgow which was unveiled on 25th January, 1877. The poem "A cottars Sauurday Night" is one in which Burns describes a picture of rural Scottish life, extolling the virtues of a simple religious belief and a happy life in spite of the hardship of the unmechanised farming toil of the period.

This plaster panel is a copy of the basso-relief at the foot of the Burns statue in George Square in Glasgow which was unveiled on 25th January, 1877 in front of a crowd of 30,000. The scene depicted is from the Burns poem "A cottars Saturday night".

The 9 foot tall bronze statue of Burns in George Square was sculpted by George E. Ewing (1828-1884). Later about the turn of the century, His younger brother James A. Ewing ((1843-1900) added three bas-relief panels in bronze based on popular poems by Burns.

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