Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
The crowd around happiness: 'Long strings of townsfolk with their families, from the 'Vesin' up t the 'Mess', men and women, gentlemen, mothers with children, infants with dolls, were coming by every road or pathway to see 'the thing to be seen' at the Bravées [...]'
Third part, Book III, chapter I
Illustrator: François-Nicolas Chifflart. Engraver: Auguste Trichon, Raymond Quinsac Monvoisin.
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_142
License type
Rights managed
Available size
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