A C Bertrand, 2002

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0316

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

2002

Extent

20 Cards : Au pays de la Fontaine. Seventeen card series of oil paintings on cloth by A.C. Bertrand disseminated on postcards. Chateau Thierry: Imprimerie Harvich.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The color schemes are strong here. Each of the paintings seems to suppose knowledge of the fable; it would be hard to deduce the fable from the rather static picture. Each card (except for CJ) gives a title above its painted picture and a key line below it.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

€3 apiece at St. Ouen, August, '113. Extras of #4, 10, and 11 for €3 apiece from Témoignage d'Images, Paris, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.