Who's having a wee dance tomorrow?

Another fantastic image from the stylish Clare Mackie. In preperation for Burns Night.

Find more from Clare on our website: https://t.co/Gm6nlu7TmG

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SCOTLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Clare Mackie has produced so much incredible Scotland-inspired artwork, we couldn't resist showing you another wonderful illustration before Burns Night draws to a close.

Find more work by Clare on our website: https://t.co/Gm6nlu7TmG

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In celebration of tonight, we share three versions of Munnings’ ‘Isabella’.

Munnings was clearly taken with this imagined heroine as he created several different pictures on the subject.

 

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From all of us at Origins, we wish everybody a very happy Burns Night. Lang may yer lum reek 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Let’s hope that this time next year, our show is in production and being shot!

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And just like that, we bow out of for yet another year. A descriptive etching by Walter Geikie of a poem by Robert Burns - 'Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny'. Bet Tam was glad of that last dram before he mounted Meg yon night!
Happy and sleep soundly!

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Happy Burns Night! Here’s my latest map for Countryfile Magazine of the beautiful Shetland Isles

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Since it’s here’s a runaway Haggis who doesn’t want to be a great chieftain of the sausage race. Tuesday brought to you by and

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For To a Mouse, On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785: 'I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,/Has broken nature’s social union,/An’ justifies that ill opinion,/Which makes thee startle/At me...'
(The Harvest Mouse by Joseph Wolf, Once a Week 1861)

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Have a wonderful Burns Night and sign up for a frightfully fearsome Scottish anthology.... Heh Heh!

Link in the reply below 👇👍🥃

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‘Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race! Happy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Here's a short extract from our title 'The Menu: Memorable Meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to a Suffragettes’ Victory Dinner...' about the origins of this celebration.

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We're celebrating with some Scotland-themed art, including humorous works by Scottish legend, Sir https://t.co/Lr4mAlXxcr

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For our final post today, here are some etchings by Robert Bryden, depicting scenes from Burns' poems. Can you tell us which poems they are?

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A Bookbug session for Burns Night.
Available to watch on our YouTube channel now.
https://t.co/4LSdTDAf6m

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🎇 We’re celebrating with Oskar Kokoschka's beautiful painting of a landscape in Scotland, currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery.

Oskar Kokoschka, Landscape in Scotland - Findhorn River © The Courtauld/DACS 2003

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Happy Robert Burns Day and Burns Night. Here's a little piece on his last home, Burns House museum in Dumfries - a place of pilgrimage ever since the poet’s death there in 1796 https://t.co/s5hqe0hMcQ

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A Bookbug session for Burns Night.
Available to watch on our YouTube channel from 12:30pm tomorrow 25th January. Don't miss it!
https://t.co/4LSdTDAf6m

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