Alloway Kirk and Burial Place of Burns Family
Photograph
The image documents the graveyard in which Robert Burns in buried. The image captures a small portion of the graveyard with roughly five tombstone per row and four rows. In the foreground of the bottom left stands a tree whose branches reach out over the yard. In the background there stands a small church without a roof and overgrown with trees.
1987.04.069
Albumen Print
Alloway kirk graveyard
Scotland
1987.04
Walter Johnson
Gift
Gift of Walter Johnson
G. W. W.
circa 1840 - circa 1893
19th Century
Scotland
Label
bottom center
ALLOWAY KIRK AND BURIAL PLACE OF BURNS' FAMILY. 1275. G.W.W.
English
Printed
alloway kirk is the name of the graveyard and g.w.w. is the initial of the artist
4-1/2 in
7-9/16 in
