Robert Louis Stevenson, age 7

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

19757

Title

p. 57c, Robert Louis Stevenson, age 7

Description

A young Robert Louis Stevenson stands with his right arm resting on a covered table whilst holding a whip in his left hand. He is wearing a dark dress with lace collar and large offset buttons under which are lace-trimmed pantaloons.

Artist / maker

Moffat, John

Date

1857

Size

14.7 x 9.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Writers' Museum

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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