Pantagruel and Ship Before Papimanes [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.39
Author: 
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, designer.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 76 x 104 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. 136).
Signed within wood block: G Doré.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "680".

Summary: 

Engraved design shows Pantagruel leading a ship and its crew approaching a coastline where four figures genuflect.

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