Accession number
PML 128507.34
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. 2, p. 129).
Signed within wood block: G D.
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. 2, p. 129).
Signed within wood block: G D.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 60 x 82 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "664".
Summary
Engraved design shows three small figures with tails, two in hooded robes, a larger figure in a hooded robe cracking a whip, and a peasant digging a hole with a shovel.
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