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Superb vintage glossy 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet card-style ‘raised’ portrait photo of Victor Hugo in a bust-length pose staring directly into the camera, signed and inscribed below in French in bold ink (translated): “To my honorable and dear friend and director, Mr. Ritt, Victor Hugo, 27, Sept. 1873.” Published by the Etienne Carjat photography studio of Paris. In fine condition. The dedicatee is ostensibly Eugene Ritt (1817-1898), the actor and theatre director credited for bringing Jules Vernes’ Around the World in Eighty Days to the stage in the 1870s. Hugo remains highly desirable in signed portraits.
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