• Title
  Robert Louis Stevenson, ca. 1892 / sketched by Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli
• Creator
  Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli, 1860–1926
• Call number
  DG P2/48
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1892
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  421674
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 pencil drawing - 40.4 x 28.4 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• 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
• Signatures / 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
• Name
  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales
  Robert Louis Stevenson - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2013 - August, 2013)

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