Accession number
PML 128507.105
Creator
Pannemaker, Adolphe François, 1822-1900, 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. 173).
Signed within wood block: AP [i.e. Adolphe-François Pannemaker?].
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.170.
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. 173).
Signed within wood block: AP [i.e. Adolphe-François Pannemaker?].
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.170.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 32 x 195 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "716".
Summary
Engraved design shows four male figures, including a robed monk, in reclining and relaxed positions.
Classification
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