Accession number:
PML 128507.12
Published:
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description:
1 wood block : boxwood ; 130 x 66 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. 1, p. 413).
Summary:
Engraved design shows winged cupid wearing a hat sitting in the foreground, putting his hand up a woman's skirt while two women talk behind a tree and a third woman holds a serpent coiled around the tree taking an apple from its mouth (putting an apple into its mouth?); a man stands reading in the background with his back turned to the group.
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