Mauchline Ware Picture Frame From the Robert Burns Monument With Burns Related Images

Mauchline Ware picture frame made from wood grown on the Banks of the Doon and originally sold in the Robert Burns Monument. The four Burns related images on the frame are: Burns Cottage, Auld Brig O‘ Doon, Burns Monument and Alloway Kirk. The image currently in the frame is a menu from the 18th Anniversary Dinner in January 1922 of the Scottish Burns Club.

The sycamore frame is in good condition to the front but with a small historical repair to the rear.

Throughout the 19th century the cult of Burns rose to huge proportions. Images derived from his life and work, and of the poet himself were to be found in most Scottish homes. Burns Cottage is where Burns was born and lived until the age of seven. An alehouse for most of the 19th century, it was restored to its former glory by the Burns Monument Trust in 1881. Alloway Auld Kirk was the burial place of Burns’ father. It was also the origin of his poem ‘Tam O‘ Shanter‘. In 1790, Burns agreed to write a witch story to accompany an illustration of the 16th century Kirk, to be published in Grose‘s ‘Antiquities of Scotland‘. ‘Tam O‘ Shanter‘ was the result and includes the scene of the witches‘ dance: “Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry.”