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Giant Battle Scene, Human Flail [printing plate].

Accession number
PML 128507.152
Creator
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, designer.
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 1854 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : J. Bry Ainé, 1854, v. 1, p. 133); 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.
Library also owns the original wood block from which this electrotype was created. (See: PML 128507.9).
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 125 x 99 mm
Summary
Engraved design shows Gargantua holding a human figure by the legs, using it to swing at an army of helmeted men carrying sheilds and pikes.
Classification
Department