Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
Gilliatt's shelter: 'There was a cracking noise ; the gap spreading in the shape of a fissure, opened its vast jaws, and the heavy mass fell into the narrow space of the defile with a noise like the echo of the thunder.'
Second part, Book III, chapter VI.
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: Joliet.
Date
1869
Credit line
Photo12/Pierre Pitrou
Reference
PTR22A00_043
License type
Rights managed
Available size
97,8Mb (8,5Mb) / 16,1in x 23,6in / 4824 x 7087 (300dpi)