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Robert Burns Depute Master
1850s
J. W. Watt; Charles Ewart
Scotland: Edinburgh
Etching on paper
framed: 34 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 2 in.; 86.995 x 70.485 x 5.08 cm
Gift of Mayre Coulter
85.60

Etching shows figure of Robert Burns wearing Masonic apron, holding maul on bible and square and compasses; title "Robert Burns Depute Master."; reads on top "Published by J.W. Watt Art Publisher 17 Hart St Edinburgh"; on bottom "Etched by Charles Ewart/ from the painting in the Grand Lodge by Stewart Watson/ Robert Burns, Depute Master/ Tarbolton Kilwinning St James No. 135."; seal on lower left "WOODS NOTES WICK/ BETTER A WEE BUSH THAN NAE BIELD."