Artist: George Houston
Title: View of Ellisland from the Front
Date: Not Known
Medium: Etching
Description:

One of a series of 12 prints by George Houston titled “Burns’ Country”  12 etchings from a limited edition of 25.  Commentary by Neil Munro attached to reverse of frame:

“The site was pleasant,” says Christopher North, “on the edge of a high bank of the Nith, commanding a wide and beautiful prospect – holms, plains, woods, and hills, and a long reach of the sweeping river.” To Jean Armour, during the happy weeks which followed her joining him there, he wrote:

O, were I on Parnassus hill,
Or had of Helicon my fill,
That I might catch poetic skill
To sing how dear I love thee!

But Nith maun be my muse’s well,
My muse maun be thy bonny sell,
On Corsincon I’ll glower and spell,
And write how dear I love thee.

Gallery: North Ayrshire Museums Service
Location: Auldgirth

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