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Burns in Edinburgh, 1787 C. M. Hardie

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Burns went to Edinburgh in 1787 and published the second edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. In Hardie’s painting Burns is reading his poems to leading figures in Edinburgh high society. The original painting is at Irvine Burns Museum.

 
 
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