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The artistry of these two-colored pieces is very engaging. Am I presuming correctly that these are the same artists who did the multi-colored postcards one year before? The style of the two sets seems to me quite different! The accent here lies on a kind of naive, folk-art impression. The set includes a number of old Aesopic chestnuts, like FC, FG, WL, WC, OF, GA, and CJ.

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These cards, about 4" x 6", all are portrait and have a white strip at the bottom of their picture side. Though the cards – and perhaps the paintings as well – are not of the highest artistic quality, I enjoy seeing Krylov's fables put into pictures.

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...

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Many of these illustrations present Tolstoy’s renditions of standard Aesopic fables. Others may be "adaptations." For example, "The Shipwreck" (#2), seems an adaptation of Aesop’s "Hercules and the Wagon Driver." Still others are stories I have not yet been able to pin down, like "Sea, Rivers, and Streams" (#3); "The Monkey and Other Animals" (#4); "Fisherman" (#9), and ""Ram, Cat, and Boy" (#14).

Abstract A: Le loup et l'agneau: A boy with a soldier's cap and uniform and a sword reaches out a hand to a little girl fishing in a stream. I may be missing something here....B: Le corbeau et le renard: A little boy tries to get the cherries from a girl in the tree. The children in these scenes wear wooden shoes.C: La mouche du coche: A boy cracks a whip made of a stick in front of a large wagon drawn by four horses. (x3)D. The vagabond musician little girl gets...

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D. The vagabond musician little girl gets turned away by the well-to-do girl inside the house.

H. A girl lives out GGE by breaking her bank and finding only one coin. There will not be any others. The hammer in her hand suggests the silly violence of the act.

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These are dramatic oil-paintings! Can we call the style "impressionistic"? One needs to know the fable, but then the picture comments wonderfully on the fable's message!

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On the first is a fox who seems to have got a jar of candied fruits from the crow in the tree. On the second, a stork cannot get the jar of jam out of the vase; a fox looks on. In TH, the hare is busy eating something (jelly? fruit?) from a jar of Materne while the tortoise passes in the background. Curiously enough, the picture side of each card speaks of "De Sprookjes en Vertellingen" (my emphasis) rather than, as on the back, "Fabels en Vertellingen."

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...

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This further card in the series of Mauzan's work has the same dynamism and emotionality one sees in his other cards. Her wooden shoes are still flying off, her jug is broken, and she lands on her face. All three of her dreamed of animals are fleeing. Well done! Bertrand tells me that this card completes this series. A German postcard trader knows that I have collected Mauzan and sends me regularly other work of Mauzan, some of it tending toward the pornographic…..

Abstract Several things make this card unusual for me. First, it falls outside the series of Mauzan cards I had already gathered. Secondly, it dates this card – and so helps with the others – in 1944. Thirdly, trying to find out more led me to learn his first names and so to correct what seemed to be an "X" in his signature on cards. Finally, I am cataloguing this card in December of 2020 and presumed that I had received it recently. I was astounded to look at the envelope and see a postmark of 2012!...

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The expressions on all three characters' faces are excellent. The exaggerated mode of dress for each emphasizes the roles well. It is easy to enjoy Mauzan's presentation of each fable!

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The shift to children may not be entirely successful here. The scene thus loses most of its serious bearing. Exploiting each possible element of the scene leads to having the ass fight against the lead of the third thief.

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The fox gains in power by being dressed, and nattily at that. The crow is just his natural self. The script and characterization seem typical for Mauzan.

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This further card in the series of Mauzan's work has the same dynamism and emotionality one sees in his other cards. Her wooden shoes are still flying off, her jug is broken, and she lands on her face. All three of her dreamed of animals are fleeing. Well done! Bertrand tells me that this card completes this series. A German postcard trader knows that I have collected Mauzan and sends me regularly other work of Mauzan, some of it tending toward the pornographic…..

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TH, OR, GA, and "The Swallow and Other Birds." I leave it to others to discern whether these black-and-whie reproductions of the Stockdale 1793 illustrations really bring them alive.

Abstract I am surprised that I have not before run into any members of this strong set of cards. Of the six listed in French Wikipédia, only "Le Milan et le Rossignol" is not included among these nine. Might it have been a set of ten? The artistry is strong on caricature, and the style might best be characterized as "cartoon." Each image makes room for the handwritten fable or important portions of it. Fables are visually transposed, where necessary, into human terms. Thus the tale of the two...

Abstract I am surprised that I have not before run into any members of this strong set of cards. Of the six listed in French Wikipédia, only "Le Milan et le Rossignol" is not included among these nine. Might it have been a set of ten? The artistry is strong on caricature, and the style might best be characterized as "cartoon." Each image makes room for the handwritten fable or important portions of it. Fables are visually transposed, where necessary, into human terms. Thus the tale of the two...

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This selection presents a wide variety of subjects.

Abstract FC. Postmarked in Southhampton in 1904. £1.75 from Mole Postcards, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, through Ebay, Jan., '01.The fable starts in traditional fashion. The crow replies to the fox's flattering request by saying that she has a cold and never sings without her music. She also mentions that she has read Aesop, and she places the cheese in a safe place in the tree. The fox on leaving remarks that Welsh rabbits never agreed with him. There are four morals drawn, including "that...

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FG and LS are two of Oudry's best and best-known illustrations, and they retain a good deal of their force in this unusual medium. 2P and OF may be less focused. It is a delight to see Oudry's work reproduced!

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"Le Lièvre et la Tortue": Patt's particular contribution to this scene seems to be the presence of a boy and a girl, both apparently surprised by the results. "Imprimé en France." Never used. Again, this card is smaller than the others.

Abstract "Le Corbeau et le renard": A young boy with a basket watches the usual scene between a fox and crow. The latter has not yet let go of the cheese."La Grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf": A boy and an ox watch as a frog on a lilly pod explodes. The bottom of the card quotes LaFontaine's lines 9-10: "La chétive pécore s'enfla si bien, qu' elle creva.""La Laitière et le pot au lait": A very young girl holds a surprised hand to her mouth after she has...

Abstract The photographs are the ultimate in posed photographs taken before large sheet-like backgrounds. Here one can see the ripples in the cloth background. The three scenes show, progressively, the joy of the dreaming milkmaid as she dreams of buying a new dress, her dismay at seeing the broken pot and spilled milk, and her regret. The pot seems more broken in the third picture than it was in the second! Portions of the maid's clothes are colored red. Is some of the background a light green? My...

Abstract The photographs show Steiff-like stuffed animals and dolls engaged in the scene. All three Crucy cards contain messages from Gentilly (one is dated in 1975) written in the same hand and signed with the same name (Camard?). For me the effort to be cute costs these scenes heavily. Perhaps the most intriguing shows the two mice of TMCM dealing with wine and sausage.MSA (#13) Is that a hedgehog who is acting as the son of the miller?TMCM (#15) The sausage and wine make...