Abeille-Cartes, 1996

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0310.1-2

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

1996

Extent

2 Cards : Two cards in a series of Jean de la Fontaine's fables. TMCM and FC. Abeille-Cartes. Paris: Editions Lyna. Postmarked from Fresnes en Woevre, Meuse, in October of 1996 and from Presles, Val d'Oise, in June of 1997, respectively.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The verso of these two postcards presents a number (2244/1 and 2244/2, respectively), a title, and a boxed version of La Fontaine's fable text at the upper left. The lively images on the picture side of the card are heavy on pastels, flowers, dressed animals, and block-letter titles. In FC the rapidly falling cheese leaves a visible trail; a mouse in an open portion of the tree trunk holds his ears against the crow's bad music, while the fox laughs below. In TMCM, the country mouse offers a cheese wrapped with a bow to his coverall-clad friend in a rustic hammock. Both pictures seem devoted to making their fables cute.