Accession number:
PML 128507.60
Published:
Paris, ca. 1854.
Description:
1 wood block : boxwood ; 131 x 97 mm
Credit:
Purchased in 2000.
Notes:
Surface of the block has been inked and prepared with white.
Engraved block after Doré, with a design created for Doré's 1854 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : J. Bry Ainé, 1854, p. 41).
Library's wood block is split.
Signed within the block: G Doré.
Summary:
Engraved design shows a man in bed surrounded by a group of both secular and clerical figures, dictating to a robed scribe next to the bed.
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