item details
NameTomb of Robert Louis Stevenson (Tusitula)
ProductionThomas Andrew; photographer; circa 1905; Vaea, Mount
Classificationphotographic prints, black-and-white prints
Dimensions14, 20
Registration NumberO.001283
Credit lineGift of Alison Beckett and Robert McPherson, 1996
Overview
3/4 view of a simple two-tiered tomb (with a plaque written in English). The first line on this plaque reads "Robert Louis Stevenson 1894', there is forest litter in the foreground and trees in background.
Note:
Epitaph (which he wrote for himself) reads: Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he lies where he longed to be
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill