Accession number:
PML 128507.114
Published:
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description:
1 wood block : boxwood ; 84 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. 81).
Signed within the block: G Dore; ER.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "604".
Summary:
Engraved design shows Pantagruel and a group of figures, one robed, in a copse looking out to a large building.
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