Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
Owner of a sailing cutter: 'More than one who possessed a good old sailing cutter, and who hoped to get a share of the business of the Durande, was not sorry to find that the Douvres rock had disposed of the new invention.'
First part, Book VII, chapter I.
Illustrator: Victor Hugo.
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_106
License type
Rights managed
Available size
169,8Mb (11,5Mb) / 23,9in x 27,6in / 7180 x 8268 (300dpi)