Storck FS, 1920

Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0372.2

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

1920

Extent

1 Cards : Postcard presenting La Fontaine's FS text beside a colored illustration. A. Storck & Co. Deposé.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The illustration here is unusual in that it has the stork standing on top of the table holding the meal. The elongation of the image helps to reinforce the point of the fable. The fox's legs seem to have become quite human in their pose. The frame of the image includes heads of both principal figures. This card is stamped "Offert par le Grand Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville, Lyon-Terreaux." I guess you could use the card to write home about the glories of this hotel.