Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
The apparition: 'The day-dream of the intruder might evoke again the marvellous apparition. A flood of chaste light falling upon white shoulders scarely seen [...] a body delicately modelled of pure whiteness.'
Second part, Book I, chapter XIII.
Illustrator: François-Nicolas Chifflart. Engraver: Héliodore-Joseph Pisan.
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_120
License type
Rights managed
Available size
169,7Mb (13,9Mb) / 23,9in x 27,6in / 7173 x 8268 (300dpi)