Bonniol Children, 1944

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0317

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

1944

Extent

8 Cards : Eight cards showing children fulfilling the roles of La Fontaine's fables. Signed by "L (?) Bonniol." Imprimé en France. Éditions Superluxe-Paris.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Good color work in these cards notable for their unevenly cut edges. One can ask what the purpose is of having the children play the adult roles in some of these fables. In "The Oyster and the Litigants" there may be something adult and even erotic about these children. In WL, it makes sense that the bigger boy can take what he wants from the little girl. Is the fox in FG a male putting down females above? One might also ask questions about how the figures in MSA fit together. Does changing to the child's world lose the point here? I am not sure, finally, how OF might work between these two children. For all those questions, I still delight in the colors and forms in these engaging cards!

Immediate Source of Acquisition

"Oyster and Litigants" for €5 from Suzanne Botti, Le Bono, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05. WL for €4 at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05. The other six a gift of Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, August, '15. Now, in Sept., '19, two last cards (TB and TMCM) for $14 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, along with an extra copy of TB for $8. Four further cards as part of a group for $1.10 each from yvrl through Ebay, May, '22. "Acorn and Pumpkin" for €10 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23.