“Astonishing Things” was Vincent Van Gogh’s observation about Victor Hugo’s work; we don’t know whether he was talking about his prose, poetry or art - probably the prose. But it’s not ...

Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism ...

Sulpice, the Paris skyline symbolises the legacy left behind by Victor Hugo. Ahead of a new show opening at the Royal Academy, Michael Hodges follows the path of the celebrated French writer and ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator - now the subject of a new exhibition in London.

Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus ... pen and ink - the same tools he wrote with - creating some 4,000 pictures. The Royal Academy has gathered together about 70 of these in ...

for Victor Hugo, making pictures was another mode of thought, though a less finished product than his prose. There’s an awful lot of brown ink here, though he diversifies into pencil or a kind ...