Plain Fables of La Fontaine Cards, 1920

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0460

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

1920

Extent

4 Cards : Four colored portrait-format cards with no artist, publisher, or advertiser. ; 2½" x 4".

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

UP, "The Angler and the Little Fish"; "The Ass and the Lapdog"; "The Monkey and the Leopard." The most distinguishing feature of these cheaply colored cards lies in the printer's designs flanking both "Fables de La Fontaine" on the top of the card and also a banner at the base of the card. This banner includes the fable's title and one line from the fable. The first three have the French fable text on the verso; "The Monkey and the Leopard" advertises rather Tisane Cisbey for constipation. The picture in UP seems taken from the same design as a single card in the collection.