Accession number:
PML 128507.91
Published:
Paris, ca. 1873.
Description:
1 wood block : boxwood ; 56 x 196 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. 26).
Signed within the block: Daupar.
Library also owns the original electrotype printing block created from this wood block. See: PML 128507.240.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Block inscribed on the reverse with the number "542".
Summary:
Engraved design shows a group of figures negotiating with an exotically robed merchant over a group of animals, including three unicorns, a pig, a goat, an owl and other exotic birds; Pantagruel's knees are seen behind the foreground scene.
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