Devils and Peasant [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.34
Author: 
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, designer.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 60 x 82 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. 129).
Signed within wood block: G D.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "664".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows three small figures with tails, two in hooded robes, a larger figure in a hooded robe cracking a whip, and a peasant digging a hole with a shovel.

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