Florian Blue Border, 1890
Scope and Contents
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
12 Cards : 10 colored French cards (and one extra) picturing scenes from Florian's fables. 2½" x slightly more than 4". No artist or printer acknowledged. ; 2 1/2" x 4"
Language of Materials
French
Abstract
In these portrait-formatted small (2½" x 4⅛") cards, a blue border surrounds the full-color picture in the upper three-quarters of the card and the five or six lines quoted from Florian below. The title of the fable itself, with Florian's name in parentheses, is written across the blue bar separating the two portions of the picture side of the card. Most cards have no advertising on either front or back, and include only the text of the fable on the verso. In fact, if one exchanges the blue stripe for a gold one, they are almost exactly like the cards in a set done by A. Billon, though they lack both the numbering and signature we find there. The strongest visual images here might be the lovely picture for "L'Ane et la Flute"; the lively one for "Le Grillon"; and the appropriately awkward one for "Les Deux Chauves." Four cards advertise "La Jouvence de l'Abbé Soury ("C'est la Santé de la Femme"!) on both front and back. One card advertises Chicorée Leroux on both front and back. I present our cards here in alphabetical order according to the first noun in each title. I wonder now how large this series might be.
L'Ane et la Flute
Le Vieux Arbre & le Jardinier
L'Auteur & Les Souris
L'Avare et Son Fils
L'Aveugle & le Paralytique
Le Charlatan
Le Château de Cartes
Le Danseur de Corde & le Balancier
"Les Deux Bacheliers" (Soury: two copies)
Les Deux Chauves
Les Deux Jardiniers
Les Deux Paysans & le Nuage
Les Deux Persans
Les Deux Voyageurs
L'Elephant Blanc
Les Enfant & le Mirroir
Les Enfants & les Perdreaux
Le Grillon
Le Singe Qui Montre
la Laterne Magique
Le Guenon, le Singe & la Noix
L'Habit d'Arlequin
Le Jeune Homme & le Vieillard
La Mère, l'Enfant & les Sarigues
Le Pacha & le Dervis
Le Philosophe & le Chat Huant
Le Roi Alfonse
Le Roi de Perse
Le Rossignol et le Prince
Le Troupeau de Colas
Le Vacher & le Garde-Chasse
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Seven for $35 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, March, '01. Three Soury cards from Annick Tilly for 10 Francs each, August, '01. Seventeen further cards, including two duplicates, for $85 from Bertrand Cocq, Sept., '18. And five further cards from Bertrand for $5 each, Sept., '20.
Source
- Annick Tilly (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository