This print is from a limited edition (1000 only) of the famous painting by Stewart Watson of "the inauguration of Robert Burns as Poet Laureate of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning", in Edinburgh on 1st March 1787. The painting is an artistic construction only as he did not receive the award personally.
(Burns was initiated in 1781 in St. David Lodge, Tarbolton, Ayrshire.)

Legend to the above.




