Alloway Kirk and Burial Place of Burns Family

Photograph

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Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Alloway Kirk and Burial Place of Burns Family

Entry/Object ID

1987.04.069

Description

The image documents the graveyard in which Robert Burns in buried. The image captures a small portion of the graveyard with roughly five tombstone per row and four rows. In the foreground of the bottom left stands a tree whose branches reach out over the yard. In the background there stands a small church without a roof and overgrown with trees.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Albumen Print

Subject

Alloway kirk graveyard

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Scotland

Acquisition

Accession

1987.04

Source or Donor

Walter Johnson

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Walter Johnson

Made/Created

Artist

G. W. W.

Date made

circa 1840 - circa 1893

Time Period

19th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

Scotland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Label

Location

bottom center

Transcription

ALLOWAY KIRK AND BURIAL PLACE OF BURNS' FAMILY. 1275. G.W.W.

Language

English

Material/Technique

Printed

Notes

alloway kirk is the name of the graveyard and g.w.w. is the initial of the artist

Dimensions

Height

4-1/2 in

Width

7-9/16 in