1959 Extra copy of Reel 2 of View-Master Packet No. B 309: “Aesop’s Fables.” Portland, OR: Sawyer's Inc.
Stories on this reel include TMCM: four images. FC: one image. SW: two images. I am cataloguing this little piece seven years after we received it! Cataloguing it gives me a chance to show the interior packaging.
1987 Lois Carlson's scenes in baked clay of exploding frog. 3½" high.
This is the final scene in a series of about five or six scenes to depict OF. What an ingenious way to show an explosion!
2018 Thirteen laminated exhibit guides for the exhibit "I See That Fable Differently." Together with a duplicate set. 8½" x 11" descriptions of each of the artworks in the exhibit, grouped according to the thirteen fables represented. Gift of the Joslyn Museum, April, '18.
Two years after the exhibit I discovered these cards and found them a lovely souvenir of a lovely experience. In fact, they spurred me to put up two different ways for visitors to our website to experience the exhibit. One of those ways was to follow, fable by fable and artwork by artwork, with the appropriate portion of these guides visible under each of the artworks on the work's own page. The text was originally drafted by students. I did considerable editorial expansion and emendation before the texts went to the Joslyn. They were so professional about every aspect of this exhibit!
1980? Collection "Les Fables de la Fontaine." Five brightly colored blotters, all from "Serie D," advertising Biscottes Excel. 5 3/8" x 6 5/8". Imp. G. Elipret & E. & A. Dourdin, Lille. Pub. A. Dourdin, Lille. $5 each for four from Dany Wolfs, Roeselare, Belgium, Nov., '01. OF for $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, Feb., '02. Extra copy of " Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin" for $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, May, '03.
Bright four-color (yellow, green, blue, and orange) work distinguishes these four blotters, each marked clearly "Buvard a Conserver" (blotter to keep). Beneath a large rectangle illustrating a fable from La Fontaine is a smaller rectangle advertising Excel biscuits from Lille, including the logo of a capped country-woman's head within a circle. OF is slightly thinner than the other cards and has smaller margins, especially on its sides. Within the illustration is the series and fable title, "Series D," and an individual number:
27: OF
37: FC
43: FG
44: WC
47: Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin (two copies)
1940? "Le Renard et le Cogogne." Ets Artistiques Parisiens. €5 from Bartko-Reher, Berlin, Feb., '25.
The artist does an excellent job with the pose and expression of the departing fox. He has been bested! The card has a full message on its verso.
1768 A set of pages removed from Volume III of Etienne Fessard's edition of La Fontaine's fables. Pages represented are 1 (the beginning of Book V: Fable LXXXIII) – 14; 17 – 24; 31 – 32; 35 – 42; and 51 - 56. $49.99 from Biblio Emporium through Ebay, August, '20.
Here is a set of pages taken from Volume III of Fessard's monumental six-volume edition of La Fontaine's fables, according to Bodemann the first fully illustrated volume. The pages were sold as coming from 1768, but the name mentioned in its advertising was Charles Monnet and the description was "chapbook." I gather that the difference between Monnet and Fessard represents the age-old tension between artist and engraver. In any case, I was so delighted with these illustrations that I scanned them all and present them here in smaller and larger versions. Not every fable represented here has both its full title illustration and its endpiece.
1890? 6 colored cards 3¾" x 2½" on thinner than usual card stock. Five include the fable on the back compliments of Estey Piano Co. The sixth, a repeat of "The Fox and the Goat," includes the fable on the back and advertises Huntington Pianos.
DM, FC, "The Fox and the Goat," "The Fox and the Leopard" (two copies) and TH. FG is also stamped "Anderson & Thorson" while "The Fox and the Goat" is stamped "Hiram Cornish, Jr." of Newfield, NY. This series seems to coincide largely with my J. & P. Coats series; this set has slightly smaller cards. This series includes three cards that I do not yet have represented in that Coats set: DM, "The Fox and the Goat," and "The Fox and the Leopard." See also Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines, which has a CP in exactly the dimensions of these cards; that CP design also matches the Coats design. Notice that a "W & W" symbol for Wheeler and Wilson has been painted out of the upper right hand corner of the TH card..
