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Etching featuring a depiction of Ayr Auld Brig looking North-west. Signed Bryden 1906. In a wooden frame.
The scene is the bridge situated on the River Ayr in the centre of the town of Ayr, from the upstream view showing local factories and churches . It was sketched in 1906.
Burns describes the rivalry between the old bridge seen in the picture and the new bridge which was situated further downstream. The new bridge referred to in the poem collapsed in a flood in 1877, as prophesized by the 'Auld Brig' - I'll be a brig when ye're a shapeless cairn'.
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