Sager Cygne et Grue, 1925

Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0378.21.4

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

1925

Extent

1 Cards : "Le Cygne et la Grue" par Xavier Sager. Fantaisies trichromes. Série n° 103. 546. Fabrication française.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

I am not sure that I have ever read a fable of the swan and the crane. Once I learned that "grue" means not only a crane but a prostitute, I am not sure that the artist had ever read one either! In any case, a crane in a very small pool eyes a jauntily and thinly clad young woman. I never thought I would have one of "those" French postcards in this collection!