Starling Prints · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: Starling Prints
Description: 1930? 9 colored La Fontaine prints signed "Starling." 100 Francs each at a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99.

Each 9.5" x 6.2" print has an image on the left, including the title of La Fontaine's fable. On the right is the text. Each is mounted on stiff paper almost 16" x 11". The fables are FC, FS, GA, MM, OF, TB, TMCM, WL, and 2P. They use color very nicely and have a cartoon quality in their conception. My favorite is OF. In it there is a bathing-beauty frogette, and the about-to-explode frog wears swimming shorts that only emphasize the balloon-like character of his chest. I always knew it: the cheese lost by the crow to the fox is a Camembert! See also a collection of postcards using these same images.
Source: 100 Francs each at a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99.
Date: 1930?
Subject: Printed Materials See all items with this value; Prints See all items with this value; The Fox and the Crow See all items with this value; The Fox and the Stork See all items with this value; The Grasshopper and the Ant See all items with this value; The Milkmaid See all items with this value; The Ox and the Frog See all items with this value; The Travellers and the Bear See all items with this value; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse See all items with this value; The Wolf and the Lamb See all items with this value; The Two Pots See all items with this value