Victor Hugo (French novelist, playwright, and poet, 1802-1885)

19th centurywoodburytypephotomechanical process

Date

1875/76

Medium

Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1

Dimensions

Image/paper: 23.5 × 19.2 cm (9 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Photography Gallery Fund

Also notable

Works in the same vein

Reliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch

Niclaus Gerhaert (Netherlandish, active in Germany, 1462–1473) Workshop of Niclaus Gerhaert (Netherlandish, active in Germany, 1462–1473)

Frontispiece for Engravers of the 19th Century

Felix Bracquemond French, 1833–1914