Starling Prints
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Title
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Starling Prints
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Description
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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.
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Source
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100 Francs each at a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99.
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Date
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1930?
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Subject
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Printed Materials
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Prints
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The Fox and the Crow
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The Fox and the Stork
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The Grasshopper and the Ant
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The Milkmaid
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The Ox and the Frog
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The Travellers and the Bear
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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
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The Wolf and the Lamb
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The Two Pots
