Augustus Saint Gaudens. Bronze circular plaque of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1900. Created in 1887. Dedicated to Eugene and Oliver Emmerson in upper left. Upper right- signed and dated "XMAS M.D.CT.C.C." (1900). Copyright on bottom center. 17-3/4" to 18" diameter. Top possibly bent in. Possibly original frame. Overall size- 24" x 24".

AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907) bronze portrait medallion depicting Robert Louis Stevenson with presentation inscription to Eugenie and Oliver Emerson along with a verse from a poem by Stevenson. Signed upper right AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS XMAS MDCCCC and also dated on medallion MDCCCLXXXVII (1887). Provenance: descended in the Arthur Ashael Shurcliff family specifically via Margaret Homer (Nichols) Shurcliff (1879-1959). Margaret Shurcliff, whose family’s home (The Nichols House Museum) is on Mount Vernon Street in Beacon Hill, also had a summer home in Cornish, New Hampshire. Margaret Nichols was the wife of William A. Shurcliff. Margaret modeled as an archer with a drape for SAINT-GAUDENS as a young girl. Additional provenance: this medallion has resided at a related collateral residence of Thomas Mott Shawn in Concord, Massachusetts. Shaw was a noted Boston architect best known for his work with John D. Rockefeller,Jr. in helping to design much of what is now known as Colonial Williamsburg. Thomas Mott Shaw is a direct descendant of Robert Gould Shaw of the famous Massachusetts 54th Regiment of the Civil War. The noted bronze masterpiece the Shaw Memorial by SAINT-GAUDENS is located on Beacon Street in Boston.

Provenance: descended in the Arthur Ashael Shurcliff family specifically via Margaret Homer (Nichols) Shurcliff (1879-1959). Margaret Shurcliff, whose familyÂ’s home (The Nichols House Museum) is on Mount Vernon Street in Beacon Hill, also had a summer home in Cornish, New Hampshire. Margaret Nichols was the wife of William A. Shurcliff. Margaret modeled as an archer with a drape for SAINT-GAUDENS as a young girl. Additional provenance: this medallion has resided at a related collateral residence of Thomas Mott Shawn in Concord, Massachusetts. Shaw was a noted Boston architect best known for his work with John D. Rockefeller,Jr. in helping to design much of what is now known as Colonial Williamsburg. Thomas Mott Shaw is a direct descendant of Robert Gould Shaw.

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