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Penie, Queen of the Gastolatres? [wood block].

Accession number
PML 128507.37
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. 161).
Signed within wood block: G Doré.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 100 x 100 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "699".
Summary
Engraved design shows a morbidly obese figure wearing a crown and holding a two-tine meat fork, sitting on the ground with her arms and hands on her stomach.
Classification
Department