Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Burns NPG D16378

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by James Cochrane & Co, after John Miers

Robert Burns was born into a struggling farming family in the lowlands of Scotland, where he was brought up on a rich oral culture of folk songs and tales in the Scots dialect. He was also taught to read and write in English and Latin. His first major publication, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), was presented and received as the work of an uneducated ploughman poet writing songs about the rural world around him. The book was immediately popular and its success was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.