Victor Hugo
Photograph
Victor Hugo
From the album Souvenir de l'exil
ca. 1853
Salted paper print
Image: 3 9/16 × 2 15/16 in. (9.1 × 7.4 cm)
Mount: 12 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (32.3 × 25.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1979.0023.0041
Inscriptions Inscribed and initialed, on mount recto, C: e ripa ad mare \ V.H.
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on mount recto, BR: Victor Hugo debout sur la grève d'Azette, \ à Jersey \ (Reproduite dans le livre de Gruyer)
[Translation: [Latin] from the shore to the sea. V.H. / Victor Hugo standing up on the shore [beach] of Azette, at Jersey. (Reproduced in the book by Gruyer)]
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on mount recto, BR: Victor Hugo debout sur la grève d'Azette, \ à Jersey \ (Reproduite dans le livre de Gruyer)
[Translation: [Latin] from the shore to the sea. V.H. / Victor Hugo standing up on the shore [beach] of Azette, at Jersey. (Reproduced in the book by Gruyer)]
