Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
The wreck: 'Nothing is more like the victim of a criminal outrage than a wrecked ship violated and stripped by those terrible accomplices, the storm-cloud, the thunder, the rain, the squall, the waves, and the breakers.'
Second part, Book I, chapter II.
Illustrator: Victor Hugo. Engraver: Fortuné Méaulle.
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_112
License type
Rights managed
Available size
159,0Mb (18,1Mb) / 28,5in x 21,7in / 8557 x 6496 (300dpi)