Le Chien qui lache sa Proie pour l'Ombre, 1924

Item — Box: CFC Advertising Box 1

Identifier: CFC2020.0033.2

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

1924

Extent

.5 Linear Feet : Twenty-one advertisements (and three duplicates) for various products using the artistry of Benjamin Rabier. All printed sometime in 1924 in L'Illustration. Products include Dentol, Regnauld Cream, and Goudron Guyot.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

What is so lovely about these advertisements is that each uses the well-known fable situation to work in a claim for the advertised product. So the "talkative turtle" could not sustain his flight holding on to the stick carried by the two ducks because he did not use Dentol to make his teeth strong. The tortoise was besting the hare because he took Goudron Guyot. The rat who retired from the world secure himself inside not a big wheel of cheese but a wheel of Dentol. The lamb that is normally eaten by the wolf offers him instead a some paste for his cough. Enjoy the twist of the fable in each case and click on the saying or picture to see a bigger rendition.