"The Casco at Her Moorings, Tautira, Tahiti", P.16

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

19291

Title

p.16, The Casco at her moorings, Tautira, Tahiti

Description

The Casco is moored in the bay at Tautira on Tahiti. The image is framed by tropical plants in the foreground.

The image is from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Casco' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around Hawaii and French Polynesia in 1888.

Artist / maker

Osbourne, Lloyd

Date

1888

Size

10.3 x 12.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Writers' Museum

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of the Casco; "her fine lines, tall spars, and snowy decks, the crimson fittings of the saloon, and the white, the gilt, and the repeating mirrors of the tiny cabin, brought us a hundred visitors." The Casco was called Pahi Muni, the Silver Ship, by the people of Fakarava.

Tahiti is one of the Windward Islands of French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean. The capital is Papeete which is situated on the northwest coast.

Born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and travel writer. Although he was plagued by ill health all his life, he was extraordinarily well-travelled, visiting Europe, America and the South Seas. He married American born Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in 1880 and is best-known for works like Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1886). From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.

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"The Casco at her moorings, Tautira, Tahiti", p.16