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
