Red Tie with Small Fox and Crows, 1980

Item — Box: CFC Ties Box 1

Identifier: CFC2019.0149.1

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

1980

Extent

58.5" Linear Feet ; 58.5" x 3.5

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Two scenes depicted on a red background. The first is that of the blue crow holding a piece of cheese while perched on a limbb. A tan fox loos longingly up at the cheese. The second scene shows the crow, clearly agitated, with an open beak as the sly fox slinks away with the cheese in its mouth.