Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist Size:M: 75 x 60cm 22nd August 1959

22nd August 1959

Half-length portrait of Ball wearing a black skullcap

the poem The Deserted Village (1770)

St Christopher-le-Stocks and the tower of St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange behind the Royal Exchange

Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist Size:M: 75 x 60cm 22nd August 1959Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist, 1877. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).