print
- Museum number
- 1980,1011.86
- Description
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The Dance of the Witches; grotesque figures performing a wild dance, including a pretty young witch and a wild haired warlock in the foreground, accompanied by a demon playing bagpipes sitting on a window ledge to left and watched from an arched window behind to right by Tam O'Shanter, lit by candles held by mummified figures in coffins against the walls, with a skeleton in the right foreground; after Faed; illustration from Burns' poem 'Tam O'Shanter', plate 4; with artists' names. 1855
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1855
- Dimensions
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Height: 169 millimetres (image)
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Height: 238 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 198 millimetres (image)
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Width: 263 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Commissioned and published by the Royal Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts of Scotland in 1855.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Tam O'Shanter
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1980,1011.86