Accession number
PML 128507.42
Creator
Diolot, 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. 2, p. 262).
Signed within the block: Diolot.
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. 262).
Signed within the block: Diolot.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 60 x 70 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "811".
Summary
Engraved design shows a male figure sitted, tied to a stake with two monks on his left, a kneeling figure near his feet, and a standing figure to his right reading from an open book; plumes of smoke coming from the background.
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