Robert Louis Stevenson 199 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The engraver understood what telescopes

The engraver understood what telescopes could not pierce: Venus reveals only what she chooses

and the tenement clamor of Hester or Orchard Street

every flourish intact — and frame it by hand so it arrives ready to hang

the salutation closing like a letter from a man who treated the office as correspondence between gentlemen

Reproduced in meticulous detail on museum-quality canvas

Robert Louis Stevenson 199 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The engraver understood what telescopesRobert Louis Stevenson 199 a portrait of the Scottish novelist whose American sojourns from Saranac Lake to the Pacific made him a fixture of late century literary celebrity, rendered with the studied gravity reserved for men who had already begun composing their own legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the