Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
Marine jewellery: 'What was that cunning jewellery of glittering shells, half seen beneath the wave?'
Second part, Book I, chapter XIII.
Illustrator: Daniel Vierge.
Illustration from a set of nearly 150 woodcuts published in the Volume XI of Victor Hugo's 'Oeuvres Complètes' including 'Les Travailleurs de la Mer' ('Toilers of the Sea') - written in 1866.
Book published in 1906 by the Société d'éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, Librairie Paul Ollendorff.
Date
1906
Credit line
Photo12/Pierre Pitrou
Reference
PTR22A00_119
License type
Rights managed
Available size
157,8Mb (13,5Mb) / 21,7in x 28,3in / 6496 x 8492 (300dpi)