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Mournful / Contemplative Full-Page Border With StatuesVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

This full-page decorative border features trees without leaves, presumably in Winter, and statues that from the context we know to be monuments on tombs. In the foreground is a lilly-pond. In the book [...]

Keywords: poems, borders, melancholy, gothic, graveyards, statuary, trees, forests, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-01-22

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Vintage border of brambles and flowersVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

This half-border (bottom of the page and one side) features blackberry vines and flowers; the flowers might be intended to be blackberries but seem too large. You could flip the image to get left and [...]

Keywords: borders, vines, blackberries, brambles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-06-26

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Tailpiece ornament - Harp with oak leaves and mistletoeVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

This woodcut was used as decoration to mark the end of a chapter; it features oak branches, with leaves and acorns in their cups, and also misteltoe branches with leaves and the white berries, a harp [...]

Keywords: ornaments, tailpieces, musical instruments, harps, mistletoe, leaves, oak, acorns, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-08-29

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La Loi: Le faible trouve sa force dans la loi qui le protègeVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

The title means, The Law: The weak find strength in the law that protects them. This image was used as a filler at the end of chapter twenty-two in a section on Victor Hugo’s banishment from France. T [...]

Keywords: engravings, law, justice, protection, nudity, bare feet, people, men, women, children, weapons, swords, attacks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-10-27

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Victor Hugo amongst the rocks at JerseyVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

Victor hugo dans les Rochers de Jersey. This is an engraving based on a salted paper print from 1885 showing victor Hugo posing by Outcasts Rock in Jersey, where he was exiled. The original print is i [...]

Keywords: portraits, victor hugo, people, victorian gentlemen, rocks, cliffs, greyscale

Places shown: Jersey

Added: 2016-02-23

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Oak gallery at Hauteville HouseVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

La Galerie de chène de Hauteville-House. Victor Hugo was proud of his library. This room contains an extremely elaborate candelabra for lighting and has ornate oak panels on the walls and door. There [...]

Keywords: interiors, rooms, candelabra, paneling, dark, books, pictures of books, gloomy, greyscale

Places shown: Guernsey

Added: 2018-06-15

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Gavroche (Les Misérables)Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

The boy “Gavroche” from the book Les Misérables. A hundred years later the book was made into a musical that was very successful, of coure, and later a film, but at this time it was a book. Gavroche w [...]

Keywords: people, boys, street scenes, poverty, bare feet, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2015-01-26

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Fantine [Les Misérables]Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

An engraving of a sketch of Fantine as a woman wearing a bonnet with a ribbon and looking away from us. The engraving is signed SHK, or maybe Sc. HV, which could indicate that Victor Hugo drew it hims [...]

Keywords: women, people, les miserables, fantine, drawings, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-10-14

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Initial letter D with hiker in forestVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

This “vignetted” decorative initial features a person with a hat, a satchel, a walking stick, stepping over the initial letter and out of a path in a forest or deep woods.

Keywords: initials, letterd, vignetted initials, trees, forests, people, walking, hiking, greyscale

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Added: 2016-02-21

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François-Victor HugoVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

François-Victor Hugo (1828 – 1873) was the fourth child of Victor Hugo. He died young, while his father was still alive.

Keywords: portraits, photogravure, victorian men, moustaches, greyscale

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Added: 2015-01-29

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Victor Hugo at his writing deskVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

Victor Hugo in his study – A Sketch from Nature by M. Régamey. The picture shows the poet Victor Hugo standing at his writing desk, which the text implies was in his bedroom. The engraving is also sig [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, interiors, victorian gentlemen, windows, beards, books, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-02-26

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