GA Werder, Nels, and Farine, 1910

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2021.0132.1-5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1910

Extent

5 Cards : Five (of apparently five) photographic postcards presenting La Fontaine's GA. Ch. Fontane, Editeur. Paris: Croissant.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Compare this set with Croissant's similar work on both MM and TH. Here, as in TH, children carry the roles. I believe that the set includes only five cards because the lines of the verse fable are all here, in perfect order. Notice the unusual way of placing the title on the first card: one part on the snow-covered roof over the doorway and the other on the door itself. The gestures and poses of the cicada are revealing, from making music, to asking with an open hand to begging with folded hands, to turning away, to a last kneeling appeal. The color work is particularly exceptional on these cards. Are they hand-colored?