Grandville Monochrome Ten-Card Set, 1898

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0334

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

1898

Extent

13 Cards : Ten monochrome landscape La Fontaine fable postcards, each labeled "d'apres Grandville." Duplicates of GA and "Rat Who Retired."

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The picture side reserves generally only 20% of its space for a message. The monochrome color differs from one card to another. The dealer gives the cards a date of 1898. Only the title and "d'apres Grandville" appears on the picture side. On the verso is nothing but room for an addressee and his or her address. The packaging is still present, if somewhat fragile. Curiously, the duplicates are done in different colors from each other.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$143.95 from Portugalcards - Jose Monteiro, Lisbon, Feb., '10. Extra copy of FS with a message, apparently postmarked in 1908. 50 Francs from Annick tilly, Clignancourt, July, '01.