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Allan Ramsay | |
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![]() Portrait pentit in 1722 by William Aikman (1682–1731)[1] | |
Born |
15 October 1686 Leidhills, Lanrikshire, Scotland |
Dee'd | 7 Januar 1758 | (aged 71)
Thrift | poet |
Naitionality | Scots |
Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686 – 7 Januar 1758) wis a Scots poet (or makar), playwricht, publisher, leebrarian, an impresario o early Enlichtenment Edinburgh.
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- ↑ Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:
Here painted on this canvas clout
by Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1]