Robert Burns – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PG_1063Burns_Naysmith.jpg

Basic data

January 25, 1759 in Alloway (Ayrshire)
†

July 21, 1796 in Dumfries
Lyriker, Schriftsteller
Dumfries, Edinburgh

Iconography

Portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. (Source: Wikimedia)

The Burns Cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire (Source: Wikimedia)

Inside the Burns Cottage (Source: Wikimedia)

Title page of the Kilmarnock Edition (Source: Wikimedia)

Burns statue by David Watson Stevenson (1898) in Bernard Street, Leith (Source: Wikimedia)

This manuscript copy of 'Address to Edinburgh' written in Burns's hand, was sent in 1787 to Lady Henrietta Don (nee Cunningham), sister to Earl of Glencairn. The manuscript is now part of the Laing Collection at the University of Edinburgh. (Source: Wikimedia)

Alexander Nasmyth, Robert Burns (1828) (Source: Wikimedia)

The River Nith at Ellisland Farm. (Source: Wikimedia)

Ellisland Farm in the time of Robert Burns (Source: Wikimedia)

Burns House in Dumfries, Scotland (Source: Wikimedia)

The death room of Robert Burns (Source: Wikimedia)

Robert Burns Mausoleum at St Michael's churchyard in Dumfries (Source: Wikimedia)

Tam O’Shanter's Ride, Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Source: Wikimedia)

Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882 (Source: Wikimedia)

Burns Monument in Dorchester Square, Montréal, Québec (Source: Wikimedia)

Burns Commons in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. (Source: Wikimedia)

Statue of Burns and Luath, his Border Collie,[17] in Winthrop Square, Boston, Massachusetts. It was moved back to its original location in the Back Bay Fens in 2019 (Source: Wikimedia)

Ellisland Farm c. 1900 (Source: Wikimedia)

Statue in Springfield Park, by the Robert Burns Association of Jacksonville, Florida (Source: Wikimedia)

Burns statue in Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Source: Wikimedia)

Burns stamp, USSR 1956 (Source: Wikimedia)

Engraved version of the Alexander Nasmyth 1787 portrait (Source: Wikimedia)

"Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!" – cutting the haggis at a Burns supper (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, Sichling, Lazarus Gottlieb - 1830/1860 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, Jensen, H. - um 1790 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, Sichling, Lazarus Gottlieb - 1830/1860 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, William Thomas Fry - 1820.03.01 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, Payne, Albert Henry - 1834/1866 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, unbekannter Künstler - 1872 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Robert Burns, unbekannter Künstler - 1801/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A002748 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on November 4, 2019

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