Victor Hugo and Charles Hugo
Photograph
Victor Hugo and Charles Hugo
From the album Souvenir de l'exil
ca. 1853
Salted paper print
Image: 3 11/16 × 2 7/8 in. (9.3 × 7.3 cm)
Mount: 12 11/16 × 10 in. (32.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1979.0023.0004
Inscriptions Signed in ink, recto, LC: Victor Hugo
Signed in ink, recto, RC: Charles Hugo
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand), recto, BR: Victor Hugo et son fils aine Charles Hugo aux / fenêtres de "Marine Terrace", maison occupé par le poète à / Jersey
[Translation: Victor Hugo and his elder son Charles Hugo at the windows of "Marine Terrace", house occupied by the poet at Jersey]
Signed in ink, recto, RC: Charles Hugo
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand), recto, BR: Victor Hugo et son fils aine Charles Hugo aux / fenêtres de "Marine Terrace", maison occupé par le poète à / Jersey
[Translation: Victor Hugo and his elder son Charles Hugo at the windows of "Marine Terrace", house occupied by the poet at Jersey]
