Tuppo from V & A, 1930

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0375

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

1930

Extent

40 Cards : Packaged set of twelve reproductions of illustrations for Francesco del Tuppo in Naples, 1485. Victoria and Albert Museum. Numbered 33-44.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Under a black-and-white reproduction of the Tuppo original is a block-print title and then this uniform statement: "Reproduction of an illustration in the edition of Aesop's Fables Printed by German Printers for Francesco del Tuppo, at Naples, 1485." Just below, the picture-side lists the number of each card and "Victoria and Albert Museum." The verso is blank except for divisions into message and address compartments and instructions to use them as such. The envelope adds a price of one shilling. One can see here a good example of how lions looked in renditions of them done by artists who had never seen a lion! The following are included:

33 The Two Dogs 34 TMCM 35 Lion and Shepherd 36 The Stag at the Pool 37 The Viper and the File 38 The Frog and the Bull 39 The Trees and the Axe 40 The Fox and the Boar 41 The Fox and the Crow 42 The Fox and the Stork 43 The Citizen and the Knight 44 The Bald Man and the Fly

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$9.99 from Mike Marsland, Cheshire, England, through Ebay, Jan., '01. Multiple extra copies of all twelve cards from Charlie and Rich Heckroth, Tucson, AZ, through eBay, August, '10.