The Meeting of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott at Sciennes Hill House
A celebrated painting by Charles Martin Hardie of that famous encounter in Sciennes Hill House fancifully adds several other celebrated men to the scene – James Hutton, father of geology; Joseph Black, the chemist and physician who discovered carbon dioxide; Wealth of Nations author Adam Smith; playwright John “Douglas” Home and Professor Dugald Stewart, the philosopher who influenced the entire Scottish Enlightenment movement.
It is unlikely they were all in the room at the time Scott met Burns, but it could have happened. Oh to have been a fly on that wall…
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