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1900? Kate Greenway Print "The Fable of the Girl and Her Milk Pail." 6” x 8.5”. $9.99 from Lawrence Camerena, April, '08.

The caption on the back reads, “from a water-colour drawing in the possession of W. Finch, Esq”. The print of the…

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I have found the work of Emile Joseph Alexandre Gouget on three occasions and in three forms. The first two, the simplest, cost €2 apiece at a flea market in Strasbourg in July, '19.

In my short time in Paris in the summer of 2014, I managed to…

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2018 "Frog and Scorpion." Silhouette art print by GeekyGamerGirls on Etsy. 17" x 11". $21 from GeekyGamerGirls on Etsy, August, '18.

"A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog…

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1920? "The Grasshopper and the Ant" print. By A.B. Frost. 7” x 9.5”. $3.74 from Steven Moraweic, Oct., '03.

This print of GA shows the scene familiar from numerous French prints but offers, rather than a young woman artist and a mother, two…

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1906 Print of R. Fontana's 1878 engraving "Aesop Narrating His Fables." The work was originally published as part of the "Exposition Universelle de 1878." $5 from Stephen P. Ryder, Alexandria, VA, through Ebay, Sept., '99.

This black-and-white…

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2005 Four reprints of 1936 prints titled "Fruity Fables," from the magazine The Sketch. reprinted by An Englishman in LA, "the most unusual company this side of the 15th century." Each of the four is about 11" x 14". Artist G.E. Studdy. Between $6.99…

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1952 4 colored prints of La Fontaine fables by Jacques Ferrand. "The Two Goats"; FC; GGE; and “The Sun and the Frogs.” About 8½” x 10½”. Unsigned. Blank versos. $19.56 from La Brauderie through Etsy, Dec., ’20.

Excellent color work,…

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1975? Blotter advertising "Super Biscottes Sablées Saint Honoré" illustrating DW. Green and red on yellow blotter paper. 11¼" x 3⅛". $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, May, '03.

This blotter -- if indeed it is a blotter -- has an unusual…

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1970? Blotter from "Aux Arts Ménagers," that is, household arts. Apparently this store offers heating, furniture, paper goods, toys. Saint-Brieuc. Four panels picturing La Fontain's "The Heron." $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, May,…

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1970? Buvard offert par Semelflex, a maker of shoes. With a trace-the-dots painting of La Fontaine's shoemaker from "The Shoemaker and the Financier." Premiere Serie C: Bottillon d'Enfant. Mesmer Pub. Imp. Sézanne. 5¼" x 8¼". $5 from Mme Denise…
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