Victor Hugo’s Bedroom
date: label: Date made
content: 1864
name: label: publisher
content: Cadart, A.
label: graphic artist
content: Lalanne, Maxime
label: photographer
content: Bacot, Edmond
notes: label: Description
content: Maxime Lalanne’s etching <I>Le Chambre de Victor Hugo</I> shows Hugo’s bedroom in Hauteville House on the Isle of Guernsey. The distinguished French author of works such as <I>Les Misérables</I> 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 <I>Chez Victor Hugo par un Passant (At Victor Hugo’s House by a Passer-by)</I>. 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Literature
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14597
label: catalog number
content: 14597
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: etching on chine colle
label: Object Type
content: Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 cm x 7.4 cm; 3 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 14.5 cm x 11.2 cm; 5 11/16 in x 4 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 31.3 cm x 25 cm; 12 5/16 in x 9 13/16 in