The Meeting of Burns and Scott Product:Canvas Group portrait of the Holborn

Group portrait of the Holborn Valley Improvements Committee at Holborn Viaduct

A small bust is visible near a book on the table

Plate 13 from the papers 'An account of the fossil skeleton of the Proteo-saurus' and 'Reasons for giving the name Proteo-saurus to the fossil skeleton which has been described'

Plate 17 from the book Icones rerum naturalium

Figure 9 Botryllus polycyclus

The Meeting of Burns and Scott Product:Canvas Group portrait of the Holborn'The Meeting of Burns and Scott', c1786, (late 19th century). Two great Scottish writers, the Romantic poet Robert Burns (1759 1796), and novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771 1832) come face to face. Scott was only fifteen years of age at this, their only meeting.