Les Souhaits page, 1850

Item

Identifier: CFC2022.0073.1

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

1850

Extent

1 Sheets : Hand-colored print of J.B. Oudry's Fable CXXX: "Les Souhaits."

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Here is a strong rendition of La Fontaine's fable about a couple granted three wishes. The first two are a wish for riches and a resulting wish for poverty, to rid themselves of the burden that came with the riches. Their third wish then turns, wisely, to a wish for wisdom.