Pantagruelists Visit the Macreons [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.114
Author: 
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, designer.
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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