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Fortunate folks - no.4: Robert Louis the first of Samoa
Unknown, 1889, Engraving
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Fortunate folks - no.4: Robert Louis the first of Samoa
Fortunate folks - no.4: Robert Louis the first of Samoa
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19758
Title
p. 58, Fortunate folks, - no.4: Robert Louis the first of Samoa
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A fanciful image of Robert Louis Stevenson being held aloft by a group of dancing Samoans. Stevenson is depicted wearing a dark suit and holding a cigarette. The Samoans all have white robes on and the women are carrying long garlands of flowers. Palm leaves are also being held aloft. The image is entitled "Fortunate folks, - no.4: Robert Louis the first of Samoa" and the text underneath reads "The latest Australian papers leave no room for doubt that by general consent Mr Stevenson is now regarded as the first citizen of Samoa, and if events should develop in the direction of the choice of a ruler by the popular will, the author of "Treasure Island" would assuredly head the poll".
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Unknown
Date
1889
Size
19.6 x 26.5 cm
Type
Engraving
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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Robert Louis Stevenson: Pacific Travels
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