Accession number
PML 140579.1
Creator
Vogel, H. (Hermann), 1856-1918.
Published
1879
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawing for an illustrated edition of Hugo's Les miserables (Paris : E. Hugues, 1879-1882).
Item mounted on a leaf at front of a copy of Victor Hugo's Les miserables, v. V (PML 140579), 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.
Item mounted on a leaf at front of a copy of Victor Hugo's Les miserables, v. V (PML 140579), 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.
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed "H Vogel" at lower right.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing shows the impoverished M. Mabeuf standing in a bookshop at a counter as the bookseller, at right examines one of the books he has brought to sell.
Classification
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