Fables de La Fontaine, Album No. 2

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Album No. 2

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Gordon C. Bennett

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:43Z

en_US 2003-08

en_US 1935?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 1935?

Abstract

en_US This is a well crafted pamphlet with fifteen fables, each with the left-hand page devoted to La Fontaine's text and the right-hand page to a brightly colored illustration. The latter are somewhere between André Hellé and Épinal Pellerin: not as simple in conception or line as the former, not as elegant as the latter. The black-and-white title-page illustration is signed A. Gaillard, but there is no indication whether Gaillard did the following fifteen colored illustrations. The most active of the illustrations may be TH, which also appears less well done on the front cover. The tortoise is sipping champagne with the bottle lying at his feet, the judge--another hare!--smokes a cigar at the finishing line, and a third hare sits creating either a newspaper headline or a poster. The following illustration of TMCM is also highly active. Inscribed in 1937. The cover is marked A.F. 32. Of course the Album No. 2 marking makes me want to find Album No. 1!

Identifier

en_US 4729 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80358

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Imageries Réunies de Jarville-Nancy

en_US France

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1935 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole