TH Croissant Fontane, 1910

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2021.0120.1-5

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

1910

Extent

5 Cards : Complete five-card set of "Le Lievre et la Tortue." Paris: Croissant 3096. Ch. Fontane, Editeur-Imp.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

This set of five photographic postcards, like some – but not all -- others in the "Croissant" family, has some unusual features. One is the inserted painted portion of each card giving a phase of the La Fontaine fable. Another is that the first of these gives an explicit title and identifies it as a fable of La Fontaine. The coloring is very well done! The female actress here has a gift for gesture! The key in this telling of the story is Card III. At first it seems that this young man fell from his bike. But perhaps we are meant to see him resting. Card IV telescopes a good deal of action into one scene. The coloration of these photographs is, I believe, particularly good.