Object Details
- publisher
- Cadart, A.
- graphic artist
- Lalanne, Maxime
- photographer
- Bacot, Edmond
- Description
- Maxime Lalanne’s etching Le Chambre de Victor Hugo shows Hugo’s bedroom in Hauteville House on the Isle of Guernsey. The distinguished French author of works such as Les Misérables left Paris for political exile after a coup brought to power Louis Napoleon, later Napoleon III. The print was originally published as one of a suite of twelve to accompany a book titled Chez Victor Hugo par un Passant (At Victor Hugo’s House by a Passer-by). Hugo’s son Charles based his book on the reporting of Edmond Bacot, who visited Hugo in 1862. Lalanne etched this scene after one of the photographs Bacot took.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- 1864
- ID Number
- GA.14597
- catalog number
- 14597
- accession number
- 94830
- Object Name
- etching on chine colle
- Object Type
- Etching
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 10 cm x 7.4 cm; 3 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in
- plate: 14.5 cm x 11.2 cm; 5 11/16 in x 4 7/16 in
- sheet: 31.3 cm x 25 cm; 12 5/16 in x 9 13/16 in
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Literature
- Record ID
- nmah_1002100
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-d481-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
