portfolio; print

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Object Type: portfolio; print
Museum number: 1813,0822.22.1-70
Description: 'Victor Hugo, Romances, the Gallery of Illustrations' (London: H.S. Nichols) 1895; portfolio containing 70 etchings by various artists illustrating Victor Hugo's stories, together with list of illustrations describing title of work and chapter, passage from the book and production details; including illustrations to 'Han of Iceland', 'Bug-Jargal', 'The last day of a condemned', 'Claude Gueux', 'Notre-Dame de Paris', 'Les miserables', 'The toilers of the sea', 'The laughing man', and 'Ninety-three'. Letterpress text printed in red and black, and wood-engraved publisher's device on title-page. Portfolio with title on spine. Etching
Producer name: Published by: H S Nichols; Print made by: Henri Lefort; Print made by: Charles Jean Louis Courtry; After: Guillaume Albert Demarest; Print made by: Claude Faivre; Print made by: H Manesse; Print made by: Pierre Salvy Frédéric Teyssonnières; Print made by: Victor Louis Focillon; After: Jean François Raffaelli; Print made by: Adolphe Alphonse Géry-Bichard; After: Luc Olivier Merson; After: Pierre Georges Jeanniot; Print made by: Alfred Boilot; Print made by: Augustin Mongin; Print made by: Louis Muller; Print made by: Fernand Desmoulin (?); After: Ernest Ange Duez; Print made by: Léon Boisson; After: Charles Édouard Delort; After: Gustave Bourgain; Print made by: Charles Bernard de Billy; Print made by: Auguste Boulard
School/style: French; British
Production date: 1895
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 300 millimetres (approx. sheet size); Width: 215 millimetres
Curator's comments: This in number 22 of 1000 copies. Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1913
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1813,0822.22.1-70

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