1975? Ceramic FG matted and framed, signed "Bellardo." Presumably by Paul Bellardo. Image 12.75" x 6". Overall 10.5" x 17.5". Unknown source.
This is a lovely and impressive piece. We are still not sure of its material. Splendid use of color. Of the many unidentified-source objects in our collection, this is one whose provenance I would love especially to discover.
2020 Three ceramic coasters showing three scenes from Walter Crane's Aesop's Fables. Almost 4" square.
How nice to see someone picking up Crane's beautiful work! And dealing with Etsy is so personal! These are well done!
CD-ROM containing a PDF of an 1884 Aesop's texts, consuming 91 pages on the disc. Accompanied by exercises based on the Cambridge Latin Course, unrelated to Aesop's Fables.
2019 CD of page-by-page jpeg photographs of Francis Barlow's 1666 Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French, and Latin, Newly Translated. 325 images, including each page containing one of the 110 Barlow illustrations. Done by Gregory Hollins using the Creighton copy of the book. Illustrations appear on images between 100-231 and 100-2410.
The illustrations are wonderfully distinct in these photographs. Note that the photographs are of pages, not of the illustration portions of pages. Some photographs of prose pages are better duplicates of less distinct images. That these are photographs of the Creighton copy is clear, for example, from the tears on 132.
1990? Picture postcard of animals illustrating Aesop's Fables from the walls of the Drawing Room, Castell Coch, South Glamorgan, Wales. €.99 from catsmelanie on Ebay, Feb., '20.
My hero in this gathering of fable characters is the frog physician holding a bottle of his elixir in the center of the picture. My, how I would love to get to Castell Coch myself to enjoy the Drawing Room!
1998? Cast pewter paperweight "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop." 2" square. Made in USA. Vilmain + Klinger.
As the Ebay advertisement says, this solid cast pewter paperweight is elegant and handsome. It is also heavy! I presume that they found this proverbial moral attached to LM.
1880? Cast iron & brass oil lamp base. Each of four faces with a fable illustration. 15" diameter. £200 from lampman78 through Ebay, May, '23.
I found this heavy piece of artistry so unusual that I splurged and went after it. We are not much into lantern bases anymore! I am surprised at the inclusion of "Swan and Stork" among the fables pictured on the four faces. I presume that it is the story about the difference between looks and power: only one of these two birds can fly!
