An anthropological study of some portraits of Shakespeare and of Burns : (abstract) / Arthur Keith.

  • Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955.
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: An anthropological study of some portraits of Shakespeare and of Burns : (abstract) / Arthur Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    peare a Celt, a descendant of the round-headed people who invaded England in the Bronze Age. Burns is from the western fringe— usually called “ Celtic,” but which in truth is pre-Celtic. He comes of the long-headed stock which inhabited our country before the Bronze Age—probably before the neolithic age dawned. Is it possible that we may explain the extraordinary difference in the working of their brains by the diversity of their racial origin ? Of the Raeburn portrait it is not for me to speak. I hat the portrait is that of Burns, I have no doubt. The features of the cranial cast are manifest in the portrait. Those who have seen the Raeburn portrait have seen Burns. [A. K.] LOND »N : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWKS AND SONS, LIMITED GREAT WINDMILL STREET. W., AND DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.K.