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. 26); 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: Daupar.
Library also owns the original wood block from which this electrotype was created. See: PML 128507.91.
Electrotype inscribed on the reverse with the number "542".
Engraved design shows a group of figures negotiating with an exotically robed merchant over a group of animals, including three unicorns, a pig, a goat, an owl and other exotic birds; Pantagruel's knees are seen behind the foreground scene.