Accession number
PML 128507.12
Creator
Prunaire, Léon Alphonse Alfred, engraver.
Published
Paris, ca. 1873.
Credit line
Purchased in 2000.
Notes
Surface of the block has been inked and prepared with white.
Engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 1, p. 413).
Engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 1, p. 413).
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 130 x 66 mm
Summary
Engraved design shows winged cupid wearing a hat sitting in the foreground, putting his hand up a woman's skirt while two women talk behind a tree and a third woman holds a serpent coiled around the tree taking an apple from its mouth (putting an apple into its mouth?); a man stands reading in the background with his back turned to the group.
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