Accession number
PML 140575.1
Creator
Anonymous, French School, 19th cent.
Published
1880s?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted at the front of a copy of Victor Hugo's Les misérables, v. I (PML 140575), the volume issued as part of a set of his collected Oeuvres complètes, published in Paris by J. Hetzel in 46 volumes between 1880-1883.
The drawing and volume in which it has been inserted appear to have formerly belonged to the engraver Fortuné Méaulle; the Gordon Ray copy of Hugo's Oeuvres complètes is evidently an author's presentation copy, with 6 of the 46 volumes containing inscriptions by the author to members of the Méaulle family. Cf. Ray.
The drawing and volume in which it has been inserted appear to have formerly belonged to the engraver Fortuné Méaulle; the Gordon Ray copy of Hugo's Oeuvres complètes is evidently an author's presentation copy, with 6 of the 46 volumes containing inscriptions by the author to members of the Méaulle family. Cf. Ray.
Description
1 drawing.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing shows the interior of the Galerie de Chêne at Victor Hugo's Hauteville House in Guernesey, with the tapestries of the life of the Virgin on the wall at right.
Classification
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Department