Accession number
PML 128507.72
Creator
Brugnot, 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. 136).
Signed within wood block: G Doré; Brugnot.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.229.
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. 136).
Signed within wood block: G Doré; Brugnot.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.229.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 140 x 200 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "185".
Summary
Engraved design shows Death wearing a helmet in the battlefield, with men at war all around and smoke rising behind the silhouette of the city in the background.
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