Drowsy Pantagruel and Shipmates [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.31
Author: 
Sotain, Noël Eugène, b. 1816, engraver.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 75 x 105 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. 2, p. 174).
Signed within wood block: Sotain.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "714".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows Pantagruel and his crew aboard a ship, in various stages of drowsiness and sleep.

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