"My Dear God-Like Sculptor..." RLS & Saint-Gaudens

Gilchrist, M. (1994) "My Dear God-Like Sculptor..." RLS & Saint-Gaudens. Cencrastus(49), pp. 11-13.

Abstract

The portrait-relief of Robert Louis Stevenson in Saint Giles Church in Edinburgh is a graceful memorial to a much-loved writer. It is also Scotland’s only example of the work of the great American sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). Westminster has a reduction of his standing statue of Lincoln from Chicago; Dublin has the Parnell Monument, to a large extent the work of his studio when Saint-Gaudens himself was dying. But, in the Stevenson Memorial, Edinburgh has a work which held greater personal significance for the sculptor: it commemorates a friend.

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Fanny Stevenson, Scottish literature, sculpture, St Giles, Edinburgh, Samoa, William Tecumseh Sherman, Vailima, bas-relief, portraiture
• Status: Published
• Refereed: No
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Gilchrist, Dr Marianne
• Authors: Gilchrist, M.
• Subjects: N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR; N Fine Arts > NB Sculpture; P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History; P Language and Literature > PR English literature
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
• Journal Name: Cencrastus
• Publisher: Cencrastus
• ISSN: 0264-0856
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 1994 Cencrastus
• First Published: First published in Cencrastus 49(11)
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with permission of the author