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Aberdeen Statue
Dr William Alexander, an Aberdeen author and journalist, was the prime mover behind the campaign to erect a statue of Burns in the Granite City.
In time-honoured fashion a public subscription was launched and the commission to execute a bronze figure of the poet was given to Henry Bain Smith (1859-95), a local sculptor.
The statue stands about ten feet high, on a pedestal of white Kemnay granite bearing the solitary word BURNS cut in the front.
Pinnington, as usual, had something to say about this statue, which was unveiled on Union Terrace on 15th September 1892. The Aberdeen statue is mildly expressive of dignity and thought. It shows the graver and sterner side of Burns, and standing close by the busiest thoroughfare of Aberdeen, although robbed of a fuller eloquence by its stiffness and frigidity, its message to humanity is at least salutary and bracing. The peasant deserved respect and homage, and he won them.
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