Gargantua and Notre Dame [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.7
Author: 
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, designer.
Published: 
Paris, 18--.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 42 x 74 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 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais.

Summary: 

Engraved design shows Gargantua draped in a strings of bells, ringing a bell into the window of Notre Dame.

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