Eight Cards, Bouillon, Rivoyre et Cie Children Acting, 1890

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0433.2

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

1890

Extent

10 Cards : 8 cards with full-color images of children acting out La Fontaine's fables. ; Just over 2½" x 3½".

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

These cards present some of the same scenes found in the "Dépot Central" set. Advertisers include A la Place Blanche, Maison Pigeon-Fernet, Grande Maison de Lingerie G. Bignou, A la Mère de Famille, Fil au Dragon, Au Marche Menilmontant. Printers acknowledged include Bouillon, Rivoyre et Cie and Leroy Sécail et Cie.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Several from Annick Tilly at Clignancourt, August, '01. Two duplicates. Extra of "The Fool Who Sells Wisdom" advertising "A Saint Roch," for $5 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20. "Gardener and Master" for €5 from Simon Rodrigues, through Ebay, June, '22.