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A plate of La Fontaine's FC using an images by Épinal de Pellerin, 1980

 Item — Box: CFC Tableware Box 6
Identifier: CFC2019.0386.1

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

1 Plates ; 9" in diameter

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: Latin

From the Collection: French

From the Collection: German

Abstract

A plate of La Fontaine's The Fox and the Crow using an images by Épinal de Pellerin. £4.99 from Mr. and Mrs. C. Protheroe, Cwmbran, Gwent, UK, through eBay, Oct., '05. This plate measures just over 9" in diameter.It lacks the green stripe around the edge of the smaller plates. The Épinal coloring is again brilliant! The match of color to the black outlines is superior here to the parallel image of The Fox and the Crow on the smaller plates.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

£4.99 from Mr. and Mrs. C. Protheroe, Cwmbran, Gwent, UK, through eBay, Oct., '05.

Repository Details

Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository

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