print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1867,1214.448
- Title
- Object: Burns Address to the Deil, illustrated by Landseer. (Sheet 1.)
- Description
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Five images illustrating Robert Burns's poem 'Address to the Deil'; headpiece at upper left with the Devil looking down from a parapet, pointing at the word 'Address,'; title page at centre, featuring a Scotsman looking down from a rocky ledge at left at flaming hell, where the Devil is roasting a man on a spit, and his helper at right is torturing a woman; at lower left, two horrified Scotsmen on a riverbank at right, one lying, the other leaning agaist a rock, frightened by the Devil, emerging from the water behind a rock at left; gorge with ruins on clifftop in background; at top right, A Scotsman with a club on his shoulder horrified at the sight of the Devil, emerging from among plants in a river at right, his fingers sparkling, breathing fire; at lower right, The Devil galloping on a horse in the air in moonlight above fields, from left to right; after Thomas Landseer.
Wood-engraving and letterpress
- Production date
- 1828-1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 380 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 1900,0613.127 1900,0613.128 1900,0613.129 1900,0613.154 and 1900,0613.235
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Address to the Deil
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,1214.448
