Accession number:
PML 128507.49
Published:
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description:
1 wood block : boxwood ; 100 x 134 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. 363).
Signed within the block: G Doré; Sotain.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.157.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "407".
Summary:
Engraved design shows a hunched figure with a walking stick walking uphill to a "hut," with a large tree with black birds perched on its branches, snakes slithering on the ground, and three birds next to a small pond.
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