Accession number
PML 128507.135
Creator
Sotain, Noël Eugène, b. 1816, engraver.
Published
Paris, ca. 1880.
Credit line
Purchased in 2000.
Notes
Electrotype from an engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, originally created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 2, p. 215); this electrotype employed for a later edition of Rabelais (Paris : Garnier Frères, [ca. 1880]) issued by the same publisher, with the Doré illustrations, but in a smaller format, with the plates cut down and the designs cropped to fit the reduced dimensions.
Signed within the plate: G Doré; Sotain.
Signed within the plate: G Doré; Sotain.
Description
1 electrotype : metal and wood ; 106 x 148 mm
Summary
Engraved design shows Pantagruel surrounded by a seated knight with a plumed helmet, a tonsured monk, a slender male figure with a plumed hat, and a short robed man holding a ring of keys with a garland around his head.
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