Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
Discovery of the skeleton: 'This marvellous palace of the deep, inlaid and incrusted with all the gems of the sea, had at lenght revealed and told its secret. It was a savage haunt; the devil-fish inhabited it; it was also a tomb, in which the body of a man reposed.'
Second part, Book IV, chapter IV.
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_133
License type
Rights managed
Available size
165,5Mb (14,1Mb) / 23,3in x 27,6in / 6998 x 8268 (300dpi)