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Stevenson, Robert Louis
(1850-1894)Portraits of Robert Louis Stephenson etc.

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer: John Davis and unknown. Portraits of Robert Louis Stephenson, etc. Circa 1890. 4 albumen prints, mounted on both sides of board. Various sizes between 21 x 13,7 cm and 19 x 23,5 cm. Some annotated in ink below the image on the mount.

Two photographs in this group feature Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa - one alongside his wife Fanny, together with local sailors and Samoan villagers - the other shows him with high chief Tuimalealiifano Si’ualo. Also included is a portrait of King Malietoa Laupepa, attributed to John Davis and taken around 1890, as well as a striking image of the German naval vessel SMS Adler shipwrecked in Apia Harbor following the 1889 cyclone. – Mounts slightly time-stained and soiled. Prints with a few light scratch marks, otherwise in good condition.