Accession number
PML 128507.73
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. 1, p. 264).
Signed within the block: G Doré.
Wood block is split.
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. 264).
Signed within the block: G Doré.
Wood block is split.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 140 x 200 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "321".
Summary
Engraved design shows Panurge and two figures in the moonlight trying to pull a ship ashore with a rope, as soldiers watch the ship from the seashore.
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