Kaiulani's Banyan

PhotographerA.R. Gurrey Jr.

CountryUnited States

MediumGelatin Silver

VolumeIdyls of Hawaii

AtelierGurrey's Ltd. (Honolulu)

Year1910-1920

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Birds, Foliage, Hawaii, Trees

Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.9 cm
Support Dimensions: 25.0 x 19.8 cm


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The Idea of Hawaii


The following lines in calligraphic script by an unknown artist are included as a photo-transfer to the leaf:

 

Kaiulani’s Banyan

“And she will remember her own Islands, and
the shadow of the mighty tree, and she will hear
the peacocks screaming in the dusk and the
wind blowing through the palms….”


To Princess Kaiulani           Robert Louis Stevenson


These lines of the poem To Princess Kaiulani are by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. (1850-1894)

Kaiulani's Banyan