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Victor Hugo's artistic talents did not end at the written word. Below you can view several of his drawings and sketches. At the bottom there are links to other pages on the net with even more.

Select a Drawing Gavroche (from Les Miserables) Gavroche Dreaming The Chain Triboulet (from King's Diversion) Gwynplaine (from The Man Who Laughs) Octopus with the initials VH Hanged Man or John Brown Mushroom Setting Sun Le Gai Chateau Rhine Valley castles

(Note: A few of the pages no longer exist on their original site, but were tracked down at web.archive.org, which is constantly adding to their archive, and is a great place to find defunct webpages. Unfortunately, they usually only archive the text....but the commentary is still worthwhile.)

• Victor Hugo - Drawn to the Void
• Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
• The Roland Collection
• octopus with the initials V.H.
• Art of Victor Hugo
• Victor Hugo "Chaos in the Brush" - web.archive.org
• Sublime Windbag (a 1998 TIME magazine article - web.archive.org)