Accession number
PML 128507.74
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. 158).
Signed within the block: G Doré.
Wood block is split.
Library also owns original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.228.
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. 158).
Signed within the block: G Doré.
Wood block is split.
Library also owns original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.228.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 130 x 198 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "216".
Summary
Engraved design shows Hypocrities outside a leaded window of the Abbey of Theleme, where inside it is crowded with a variety of religious and profane characters, some bat-like, others grotesque.
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