Pantagruelists at the Isle Sonnante [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.110
Author: 
Huyot, Jules Jean Marie Joseph, b. 1841, engraver.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 88 x 200 mm
Credit: 
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. 199).
Signed within the block: G Doré; Huyot.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "730".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows a group of figures accompanying Pantagruel on the shore of the Isle Sonnante.

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