Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
The southwest wind: '[...] the powerful south-west wind, [...] which carries the great condor out to sea, and saves him from the pit where the Indian, concealed under a bullock-hide newly stripped, watches for him, lying on his back and bending his great bow with his feet [...]'
Second part, Book III, chapter IV.
Illustrator: Daniel Vierge. Engraver: Albert Bellenger.
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_126
License type
Rights managed
Available size
162,4Mb (11,1Mb) / 22,9in x 27,6in / 6864 x 8268 (300dpi)