Mary Campbell was one of Robert Burns' lovers, immortalised in his song, 'The Highland Lassie O'. The couple had intended to emigrate to Jamaica, but she dies in childbirth shortly after their betrothal, in 1787. Highland Mary is portrayed as a young woman, barefooted, wrapped in a fringed plaid cloak which also covers her head. She gathers it at her throat with her left hand and holds a book in her right, at thigh level. On the ground are some thistles. She is portrayed as she appeared at her last meeting with Burns on he banks of the River Ayr, the book presumably intended to represent the Bible, which Burns has given her.