Romanel, featuring Fox and Stork, 2021

Item — Box: CFC Advertising Box 2

Identifier: CFC2024.0115.1

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

2021

Extent

1 Sheets : Laminated reproduction of a 1945(?) advertisement poster for Romanel, "the perfect water for the aperitif," featuring FS. A 3 ; (11¾" x 16½").

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

This poster is so attractive that it sells for high prices iln various art galleries. One can distinguish the original from a facsimile like this by the lack here of a printer's name at the base of the poster front. Notice that not only is the stork enjoying the water, to the fox's chagrin, but the same scene is also on the label of the bottle itself. I have not yet been able to find an actual bottle label of that sort, but you never know!