Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, 1964

Item — Box: CFC Advertising Box 2

Identifier: CFC2021.0302.1

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

1964

Extent

1.25 Linear Feet : Advertisement in red and black for John J. McKendry's Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ; 11¼" x 15", folded into six quadrants

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This advertisement is extremely clever. The large sheet of heavy paper is folded down to a brochure of about 5" x 5½". As one opens the brochure, one finds four progressive views. First a simple Ulm woodcut detail without words invites a viewer to open the brochure from the left. The next view, of the same size, uses Calder's WC and proclaims "It wasn't an easy task." The next opening offers a view three times as large and uses a sole lion, an LM illustration, and Grandville's TH to describe the complexity of the task. The final foldout makes its offer with a clever remark for each of four illustrations. Thus accompanying Hollar's illustration of the crab and her mother we read "with lessons for parents and children alike." It is a joy to see ingenuity expended on a project like this! For now, I can offer views of only the two first panels.