Accession number
PML 128507.84
Creator
Joliet, Auguste, active 1861-1878, 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. 289).
Signed within wood block: G Doré; Joliet.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.141.
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. 289).
Signed within wood block: G Doré; Joliet.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.141.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 200 x 130 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "830".
Summary
Engraved design shows Lady Lantern in a vineyard of tall, overarching vines, surrounded by a group of figures.
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