Robert Louis Stevenson and family Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Louis Stevenson and family NPG x4630

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by J. Davis

Taken by the local postmaster, this photograph shows Stevenson, seated in the centre, on the verandah of the house he built there. The house was named Vailima, meaning 'five streams', on Mount Vaea. The other sitters are, from left to right, Lloyd Osbourne, his stepson and collaborator; Stevenson's mother, Isobel Osbourne; Mrs Joseph Strong, stepdaughter and amanuensis; Austin Strong, the Strongs' son; Stevenson's wife, and Joseph Strong, his stepson-in-law.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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