When Charles Sprague Pearce showed his cabinet picture of Rosina for the Salon in 1882 he described her as "the tawney skinned, panther eyed, elf-like Rosina, wildest and lithest of all the savage creatures on the savage isle of Capri."
In 1882, when Charles Sprague Pearce presented his cabinet picture of Rosina at the Salon, he referred to her as "the tawny-skinned, panther-eyed, elf-like Rosina, the wildest and most agile among all the wild creatures on Capri."