Thayer creates a hauntingly beautiful monument to Robert Louis Stevenson, merging classical allegory with personal grief. The winged figure's sombre posture and the rough, swept texture of the rock (applied with a stable broom) evoke a sense of weathered permanence. It is a masterful study of an Angels light serving as a "light against oblivion". Thayer and Robert Louis Stevenson never actually met, but Thayer was deeply captivated by Stevenson's writing.

Image source: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Print only sizes A4, A3, A2 and A1.

Print framed final sizes A4, A3, A2 and A1.

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For A4 and A3 prints we use 270gsm Mohawk Superfine paper media. For A2 and A1 prints we use 270gsm Etching Cotton paper media. To protect our prints we use shatter-resistant acrylic. To frame our prints we use solid wood frames or paper wrapped engineered wood.

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