Le Rhin Bacharach, 2017.0.824, Entre 1890

Author(s): méaulle, fortuné louis (angers, 11–04–1844 - in 1901), engraver hugo, victor (besançon, 26–02–1802 - paris, 22–05–1885), author of the model imprimerie p. Mouillot, printer hugues, eugène, editor other titles: illustration for "le rhin", in the edition e. Hugues, 1890 (subtitle), victor hugo. Paris: e. Hugues, 1876-1897 (title of the set) production date: between 1890 dating in century: 4th quarter of the 19th century type(s) of object(s): print, graphic arts name(s): print materials and techniques: wood engraving dimensions - artwork: height: 25. 4cm width: 16. 7cm dimensions - museum assembly: height: 53cm width: 38cm description: work fixed on a montage marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: letter - in the lower left image: "bacharach / 27 - 4". Museum mark - museum stamp in blue ink, on the reverse in the center of the print (lugt 1270a). Iconographic description: this illustration can be found on page 79 of the hugues edition. Reproduces victor hugo's drawing, made during the 1864 trip, representing the altes haus (the old house), in oberstrasse, which is still today one of the curiosities of bacharach, a town on the banks of the rhine (germany, rhineland-palatinate, district of mainz-bingen), inv. No. 1. Themes / subjects / places represented: literary scene, the rhine. Letters to a friend (v. Hugo) institution: maison de victor hugo - hauteville house inventory number: 2017. 0. 824. Date: Entre 1890.