Tam O' Shanter

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

22077

Title

Tam O' Shanter

Description

A descriptive etching of a poem by Robert Burns. A man rides a horse across a bridge as a ghost grabs hold of the horse's tail.

Artist / maker

Geikie, Walter

Size

14.9 x 18.8cm

Type

Etching

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1978/1159

A descriptive etching of a poem by Robert Burns.

A passage from the poem 'Tam o' Shanter' by Robert Burns.

'Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg--
A better never lifted leg--
Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire;
Despisin' wind and rain and fire.
Whiles holding fast his gude blue bonnet;
Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet;
Whiles glowring round wi' prudent cares,
Lest bogles catch him unawares:
Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh,
Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry.'

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