Pantagruel in Graveyard [wood block].

Accession number: 
PML 128507.69
Author: 
Pannemaker, Stéphane, 1847-1930, engraver.
Published: 
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description: 
1 wood block : boxwood ; 246 x 200 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. 87).
Signed within wood block: G Doré; Pannemaker - Fils [i.e. Stéphane Pannemaker].

Summary: 

Engraved design shows Pantagruel mourning over two figures in a graveyard, surrounded by various military, religious and scholarly figures.

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