Sparkly French, Fox and Crow, 1955

Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2021.0082.1

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

1955

Extent

1 Cards : Fables of La Fontaine. Three, out of an apparently larger series, full-color postcards displaying La Fontaine fables in cartoon-like fashion, with sparkling dust glued around the outlines of important parts of each illustration. Made in France. Paris: TDA: Marque Déposé. #721.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Most of the four animal figures on these cards are clothed. For some reason, the stork offering food to the fox in tall vases is not clothed. The fox has his hands on his hips in a fine gesture of disappointment and even dudgeon. In TH, the hare hurries so quickly toward the finishing line that he loses his hat. In FC, the fox holding an umbrella with one hand reaches the other hand out to catch the fallling cheese. It is hard for me to see what the gray sparkles add to these pictures.