Pantagruel and Boy [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.28
Author: 
Prunaire, Léon Alphonse Alfred, engraver.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 125 x 75 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. 464).
Signed within the block: Prunaire.
Wood block is split.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "519".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows Pantagruel in a feather cap and cloak escorting a young male.

Classification: 
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