About this artwork
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artist:William BewickEnglish (1795 - 1866)
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title:Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Line engraving on paper
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measurements:10.16 x 8.25 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by William Finlay Watson 1886
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accession number:SP IV 29.64
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William Bewick
William Bewick
Bewick was born in Darlington, County Durham, the son of an upholsterer. He went to London when he was twenty, where he trained under the history painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon. He made a series of drawings of the Elgin Marbles for the German poet Goethe and made a name for himself as a skilful...
