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Robert Louis Stevenson and his father 1860
Moffat, John, 1860, Photograph
Robert Louis Stevenson and his father 1860
Robert Louis Stevenson and his father 1860
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Robert Louis Stevenson and his father 1860
Description
Thomas Stevenson and his son, Robert Louis Stevenson, pose for a photograph. Thomas sits on an armchair. He wears a jacket and beige coloured trousers. Robert Louis stands next to his father, and wears a buttoned up jacket with collar. A longhaired dog is snuggled on the floor next to the armchair. A floral drape frames the right hand side of the photograph. The floor is tiled with a geometric pattern.
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Moffat, John
Date
1860
Size
9.5 x 14.5 cm
Type
Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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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Whose Town? Robert Louis Stevenson
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