Accession number
PML 128507.141
Creator
Joliet, Auguste, active 1861-1878, engraver.
Published
Paris, ca. 1880.
Credit line
Purchased in 2000.
Notes
Electrotype from an engraved block after Doré, with a design for an illustration for Gargantua et Pantagruel, orignally created for Doré's 1873 illustrated edition of the collected works of François Rabelais (Oeuvres. Paris : Garnier Frères, 1873, v. 2, p. 289); this electrotype employed for a later edition of Rabelais (Paris : Garnier Frères, [ca. 1880]) issued by the same publisher, with the Doré illustrations, but in a smaller format, with the plates cut down and the designs cropped to fit the reduced dimensions.
Signed within plate: G Doré; Joliet.
Library also owns the original wood block from which this electrotype was created. See: PML 128507.84.
Signed within plate: G Doré; Joliet.
Library also owns the original wood block from which this electrotype was created. See: PML 128507.84.
Description
1 electrotype : metal and wood ; 200 x 130 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Electrotype inscribed on the reverse with the number "830".
Summary
Engraved design shows Lady Lantern in a vineyard of tall, overarching vines, surrounded by a group of figures.
Classification
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