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Such flights as far beyond her power:
To sing how Nannie leaped and kicked
(A supple youth she was and strong);
And how Tam stood like one bewitched.
Artist
- Name:
- Landseer, Thomas
- Dates:
- 1795-1880
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Williams, Thomas
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny, a poem
- Author(s):
- Burns, Robert
- Publisher:
- London: Marsh and Miller, 1830
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Witches are having a sabbath dance to the music of the Devil playing the bagpipe in the foreground and by the light of torches held by corpses in their coffins as a stunned Tam O’Shanter watches from a window, wearing the signature bonnet to which he gave his name.
The caption reads in the original:
But here my muse her wing maun cour;
Sic flights are far beyond her pow’r;
To sing how Nannie lap and flang,
(A souple jade she was, and strang),
And how Tam stood, like ane bewitch’d.
Keywords: 1830s, 19th century, black & white, dance, death, devil, eerie, festive, music, night, Scotland, supernatural, witch
