Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
Gilliatt's bad reputation: 'Another day, Gilliatt seeing a boy come down from a tree with a brood of little birds, newly hatched and unfledged, he took the brood away from the boy, and carried his malevolence so far as even to take them back and replace them in the tree.'
First part, Book I, chapter IV.
Illustration from a set of 56 engravings published in the English edition of 'Les Travailleurs de la Mer' ('Toilers of the Sea'), by Victor Hugo, published in 1869 by Sampson Low, Son and Marston.
Illustrator: François-Nicolas Chifflart. Engraver: Auguste Trichon, Raymond Quinsac Monvoisin
Date
1869
Credit line
Photo12/Pierre Pitrou
Reference
PTR22A00_008
License type
Rights managed
Available size
95,2Mb (7,4Mb) / 15,7in x 23,6in / 4696 x 7089 (300dpi)