French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables ... “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo”, at the Royal Academy of Arts, traces ...

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.

and Les Miserables. The exhibition tracks his progress from early caricatures and travel drawings to dramatic landscapes and experiments with abstraction. While his writings were rooted in reality ...