Statue: Robert Burns
Erection date: 26/7/1884
{On the front of the plinth:}
"The poetic genius of my country found me at the
plough - and threw her inspiring mantle over me she
bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and
rural pleasures of my native soil in my native tongue:
I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired."
{On the paper at his feet at the left:}
"O sweet to stray, and pensive ponder a heartfelt sang."
{On the sculpture, at the back:}
Sir John Steell, Sculptor, 1881, Edinr.
{On a stone in the ground of the statue:}
The gift of John Gordon Crawford 1884.
Quill pen in hand. Unveiled by Lord Rosebery. This statue is one of 3 copies of that in Central Park, New York, the others being in Dundee and Dunedin, New Zealand. The head on the London statue is at a slightly different angle.
Site: Robert Burns (1 memorial)
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
