Studio Stefan, 1955

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0371

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

1955

Extent

6 Cards : Five different Italian postcards with verse text and colored picture on one side and room for a message and address on the other. Though the card stock is cheap, the color work is very nice. It seems to involve about four colors per card. The visual works are signed by "stefanini" (?). Studio Stefan. A cura dell'Associazione Cardinal Ferrari. ; 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".

Language of Materials

Italian

Additional Description

Abstract

"La Cornacchia Superba" contrasts the crow's black feathers with the green and yellow peacock feathers stuck into his tail. A nice visual composition.

"Il Lupo e l'Agnello" puts us at the wolf's back looking out on the small lamb on green-and-yellow grass.

"Il Lupo e il Cane" shows the wolf running away from the dog chained to his doghouse.

"I Muli e i Ladroni" shows a mule down on the ground with his saddle off while another with a green-and-yellow load (hay?) looks back at him.

"La Volpe e il Corvo" shows the crow singing with beak wide open. The fox extends herself upward to catch the cheese that is in mid-air.