Accession number
PML 128507.19
Creator
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, designer.
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. 336).
Signed within the block: G. Doré.
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. 336).
Signed within the block: G. Doré.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 130 x 97 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "376".
Summary
Engraved design shows a bearded Pantagruel wearing a feathered hat in counsel with a group of six men, three on each knee, one on the left a tonsured monk and one on the right giving advice.
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