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Burns, Blacklock, and Francis Grose: Three Sketches at Auction
Burns Chronicle for 2020 (2019)
  • Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina - Columbia
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Abstract
An illustrated report and discussion of three sketches by Francis Grose (1738-1791) in an album recently sold at auction in Dublin, considering whether they may be previously-unrecorded informal sketches of Robert Burns. Attachment is unpaged prepublication version.

Keywords
  • Scottish literature,
  • Scottish poets,
  • Robert Burns,
  • Francis Grose,
  • caricature
Disciplines
Publication Date
December 10, 2019
Citation Information
Patrick Scott. "Burns, Blacklock, and Francis Grose: Three Sketches at Auction" Burns Chronicle for 2020 Vol. 129 (2019) p. 4 - 9
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/368/