"Nouvelles Galeries, Saumur" Fox and Crow, 1900

Item — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0480.10

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

1900

Extent

1 Cards : One black-and-white portrait-format card illustrating La Fontaine's FC with "Nouvelles Galeries, Saumur" printed in red under the bottom of the picture.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

At the top of the picture side of this card is "Choix de Fables." It is extremely similar to a postcard in the series Collection Charier. Indeed, the verso of this card reads "Bons Points Instructifs: Collection C. Charier" above the text of La Fontaine's fable. The image here, as in Collection Charier, includes a tombstone-like tableau for listing both "Fables de La Fontaine" and the fable's title.