Accession number:
PML 128507.1
Published:
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description:
1 wood block : boxwood ; 94 x 130 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 chapter 47 of 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. 141).
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block (See: PML 128507.181).
Inscriptions/Markings:
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "192".
Summary:
Engraved design shows the death of Toucquedillon at the order of Picrochole.
Classification:
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