Bergougnan/Boutigny, Tightrope Walker, 1890

Item — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0093.1

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

1890

Extent

1 Cards : 20 colored French cards (from a larger series?) picturing scenes from La Fontaine's fables and apparently just one, "Les Serins et le Chardonneret," from Florian. All advertise Bergougnan on the verso, though in five different forms, including one postcard. Clermont-F - Imp. Joachim. ; Just over 3½" x 5½".

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Each of the colored pictures here includes a quadrangular text of the fable from La Fontaine or, in the one case noted above, Florian. It also includes five circles arranged in relation to a major illustration of the story. Bergougnan seems to have been a major seller of rubber products, especially for automobiles. The cards frequently advertise Caoutchouc. Thérèse Boutigny is advertised as "Marchande de Mode" in Amiens. The two Boutigny cards were printed byi PaulVallier, Clermont FD Paris. This group may set a record for the number of advertisers -- and the number of forms one advertiser used -- to advertise his rubber products!