STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Robert Louis Stevenson"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1890]. 170 x 119 mm. (6 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.) including mount, some overall browning, some spotting on mount; matted. A very direct and striking half-length seated portrait of the author, with hands folded on the arm of a chair, inscribed on the mount: "Mrs. Frank Hume in memory of a first class liner, from Robert Louis Stevenson " "Like his fictional Dr. Jekyll, Stevenson had two sides: the sickly, tubercular law student, and the flamboyant adventurer who traveled from his native Scotland to America (he lived in New York State briefly, where he wrote Treasure Island ) and Africa, and ended his days on the South Sea Island of Samoa. The photo, which Stevenson gave to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner, 'lays open a vital and engaging face...and intelligence, so rarely caught on film, dances in warm eyes' (J.D. Reed, Time )"--W.M.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Robert Louis Stevenson"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1890]. 170 x 119 mm. (6 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.) including mount, some overall browning, some spotting on mount; matted. A very direct and striking half-length seated portrait of the author, with hands folded on the arm of a chair, inscribed on the mount: "Mrs. Frank Hume in memory of a first class liner, from Robert Louis Stevenson " "Like his fictional Dr. Jekyll, Stevenson had two sides: the sickly, tubercular law student, and the flamboyant adventurer who traveled from his native Scotland to America (he lived in New York State briefly, where he wrote Treasure Island ) and Africa, and ended his days on the South Sea Island of Samoa. The photo, which Stevenson gave to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner, 'lays open a vital and engaging face...and intelligence, so rarely caught on film, dances in warm eyes' (J.D. Reed, Time )"--W.M.
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