Lafontaine's Fabeln

Title

en_US Lafontaine's Fabeln

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Zweite Auflage

In neuer Auswahl und Bearbeitung von Friedrich Hoffmann

Creator

en_US Hoffmann, Friedrich See all items with this value

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:53Z

2018-02

en_US 1864

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1864

Abstract

en_US "Mit 12 illuminirten Bildern." I cannot tell if these twelve full-page illustrations are hand-colored or lithographed. This 1864 printing would lie between Bodemann #287.6 in 1855 and #287.7 in 1870. The illustrations are very strong, and are surely the highpoint of this little (4½" x 6") book. Among the best of the twelve are the frontispiece, "The Wolf, the Mother, and the Little Child"; GA (14) and "The Robber and the Ass" (28). "The Horoscope" concerning Aeschylus' death has a strong image on 55-56. TH (97-98) has an unusual image that includes both animals but also one pair of humans and one solitary human. Is the young man charming the young woman a dawdling hare while the young man moving away from us is a dutiful tortoise? Similarly, "The Heron" is illustrated in an interior human scene where a scowling woman is refusing at least one man courting her (111). Picky, picky! The image for MSA (125) is nicely slanted; that ass must have been heavy! "Wolf and Hunter" (141) lines up the victims nicely and catches, I believe, the moment in which the wolf becomes the last victim.

Identifier

en_US cf. 287.6 and 287.7

en_US 12156 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125852

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verlag von Rudolph Chelius

en_US Stuttgart

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value