Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1891 — ROBERT BURNS MEMORIAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROBERT BURNS MEMORIAL.

A Statue of Scotland's Poet for His Birthplace at Ayr. The Memorial statue of Robert Burns to be erected in the borough of Ayr, the poet’s native place, has just been successfully cast at Moore’s foundry, at Thames Ditton. It is not

the statue of an idealized Robert Burns, but that of a simple veoman with “clouted shoon,” the attire of a northern farmer, and with thoughtful face, as seen on Nasmith’s painting in the Scotch. National Gallery. The statue is nine feet in height and represents the poet at the age of 27. The sculptor is George A. Lawson, whose greatest ambition has alwavs bee i • “do” a statue of Burns. The sides ui the granite pedestal will be covered bv reliefs on which four scenes from Burns’ poems are depicted, and the height of the entire statue, which is destined for the square in front of the Station Hotel at Ayr, will be about twelve feet. It will be reproduced in bronze, half life-size, by a London firm. After the casting of the statue at Moore’s the sculptor, the founder and the guests who witnessed the interesting operation wereentertained at Mr. Moore's house and drank to the memory of Scotland’s great poet.

THE AYR STATUE OF BURNS.