2008 Two refrigerator magnets, each about 3½" x 5", presenting GA and "The Ant and the Chrysalis," respectively.
Here is another new one on me! I never would have thought of Aesopic refrigerator magnets. These two are very nicely made. Notice the hyperbole in the GA text: the ant drags a banana to his nest! Space and a change of typeface set off the moral in each case. Now here is a use of fables that Aesop never had in mind!
2017 12 Notecards by Redwood Library and Athenaeum Presenting Images and Texts from Phaedrus. Illustrations engraved by B. Cole from 1734 “Phaedri Fabulae Selectae, Latine, Anglice, Gallice.” Newport, RI. Unknown source.
This is a strong set of oval images, apparently with the (updated?) English of the original. The cards are in the middle and have identical last pages. I inquired at The Redwood Library and Athenaeum and received a helpful answer that the first record of selling these cards was in 2017. They could not say if there are more in the group; those that they have left are all represented in our twelve.
1980? Red and white runner featuring fable figures. 8’ x 8.3”. Source unknown.
This long piece of cloth features three repeated fable scenes – WL; FC; and TH – in that order around a central scene of a wolf with a young woman carrying a pitcher. Red Riding Hood perhaps?
1980? Red and white runner featuring ten fable scenes. 44.5" x 14.5”. Source unknown.
This piece of cloth features two rows of distinctive fable scenes. One row features, from left to right, FC; "The Heron"; MM; TH; and WL. If we turn it over and again proceed from left to right, we have "The Secret"; CJ; FS; "The Hare and the Frogs"; and MSA. Some scenes are more skillfully rendered than others, but overall it is a lovely piece!
