Monique Touvay, 1997

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0373

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

1997

Extent

7 Cards : Four French cartoon postcards of La Fontaine's fables in multiple panels. Monique Touvay, Les Quatre Zéphires Editeur, Versailles. Printed in France.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

In MM, successive animals seem to leap out of the pitcher of milk resting on the walking milkmaid's head--until the calf says "adieu" and the pitcher slips off of her head. In FC, the second and third panels are cleverly interrelated: what the crow lets go in #2 falls into the fox's hand in #3, so that in #4 we see only the fox holding the cheese. In FS, notice the parallel vertical lines in pictures #1 and #3 and the parallel diagonal lines in #4, including the chagrined fox heading home with his hat. A good deal of action is puti nto the twelve panels of "The Cat, the Weasel, and the Little Rabbit."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

€3 each at St. Ouen, August, '13. Extra of MM for €1.50 from Gérard Crucy, Yerres, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05. Extra of "The Cat, the Weasel, and the Little Rabbit" for $4 from Topical Paradise, May, '14. TH for $8 from Mrs. Zigletta on Ebay, April, 20.