Robert Louis Stevenson, ca. 1892 / sketched by Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli
Robert Louis Stevenson, ca. 1892 / sketched by Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli
Robert Louis Stevenson, ca. 1892 / sketched by Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1892
Call Numbers
DG P2/48
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 40.4 x 28.4 cm. - 1 pencil drawing
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Robert Louis Stevenson, ca. 1892 / sketched by Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Untitled and undated, however Stevenson sat for a portrait in oils for Nerli in 1892 in Samoa, and this sketch was probably done at the same time. Source: Curator's notes, Mitchell Library, 2002
Signed by the artist in watercolour at lower right
Transferred from DG 341
Frame at F 148
Digital order no:a128153
Signature / Inscriptions
"Al mio caro amico H. Walter Barnett, questo ricordo di Samoa Girolamo Pieri Nerli offre!" -- at lower left. Translation from Italian to English: To my dear friend H. Walter Barnett Girolamo Pieri Nerli offers this memento of Samoa
Contextual Information
Source
Presented 1952
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DG P2/48
Record Identifier
1DrmRKR9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1DrmRKR9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
421674
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