The Meeting of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott at Sciennes Hill House, Edinburgh. Black and White print from a colour oil painting, 1893. This engraving of the Scene at Sciennes House in Edinburgh, home of Professor Adam Ferguson where Robert Burns and Walter Scott met in the winter of 1786-7 is based on the original painting by Charles Martin Hardie ARSA. In the scene the main subjects are named below as the artist went to considerable lengths to create good likenesses of the main personages. To the left is Adam Ferguson stoking the fire, then Burns standing opposite Scott, Dugald Stuart seated, Joseph Black MD, Adam Smith, John Home (author of 'Douglas') and Dr Ja's Hutton Geologist.