Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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VMH_1_145.pdf
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Reference Number:
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VMH/1/145
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Link to Catalogue:
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Series Title:
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Victor Hugo's correspondents: letters to and from Victor Hugo, (1824-1882)
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Parent Work Title:
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Letter from Victor Hugo to Pierre-Jean David
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Creator:
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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Description:
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Autograph letter of reply to David d'Angers whose letter to Hugo has only reached him "on the morning of the ceremony" when he had apparently been too busy to comply with David's request.
Bought from Jean Gaudon on 24 January 1966 for 845 francs, with letters from Hugo to Bérardi and Fillieu, and Mickiewicz.
David d'Angers was a famous Romantic sculptor. He notably made the bust of the most prominent artists and scholars of the period (including Hugo in 1837) and sculptures for the Panthéon and the Père Lachaise cemetery. He was also elected deputy in 1848, but, being a radical Republican, he had to leave to Belgium, then Greece, in December 1851 and only came back to die, in 1856.
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Language Code:
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fre-FR
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Language:
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French
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Category of Material:
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Archives
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Sub-Category:
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Letters (correspondence)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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People Covered:
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David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean, 1788-1856
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Item Height:
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213 mm
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Item Width:
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135 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2023-08-14
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2023-08
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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