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Baby Gargantua hiking a skirt [wood block].

Accession number
PML 128507.2
Creator
Brux, Olympe, 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. 37).
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 82 x 96 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "42".
Summary
Engraved design shows the infant Gargantua lifting a lady's skirt with his sword.
Classification
Department