Comparison of Versions of "Aesop the Slave Narrating His Fables"
- Address Labels
- Album Stamps
- Art Book Offprints
- Articles Presenting La Fontaine's Works
- Bookmark Puzzles
- Bookplates
- Book Reviews
- Box of Chinese characters with pen and booklet
- Brain-Teaser Puzzles: Fables de Nestlé
- Broadsides
- Broadside Reproductions of La Fontaine
- Broadside Reproductions of Florian
- Brochures
- Calendars
- Canvas Prints
- Cartoons about Politics
- Classroom Scroll Hangings
- Comics and Comical Cartoons
- Decals
- Die Cut Papers
- Dioramas
- Dust Jackets
- Encyclopedia Articles
- Engravings
- Envelopes
- Etchings
- Exhibit Guide Pages
- Fable Pages: Der Wolf und das Schaf
- Fairy Tale Stamps
- Flip-Overs
- Gift Certificates
- Christmas Tree Garlands
- Handbills
- Hangable Pictures
- Hidden Pictures/Devinettes
- Leaflets
- Linocut Print
- Lithographs
- Lottery Tickets
- Magazine and Newspaper Illustrations
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
- Magic Pads
- Maps
- Menus
- Minute Biographies
- Musical Scores
- Notebooks
- Paper Pads
- Painting Reproductions
- Photographs of Art Works
- Other Photographs
- Picture Story Albums
- Pictures to Color
- Plate Reproductions
- Poems Responding to La Fontaine
- Popper Guns
- Posters
- Prints
- Printer's Blocks and Plates
- Receipts
- Scraps
- Scrap Illustrations from Books
- Separated Book Pages
- Sewing Patterns and Designs
- Fables in Silhouette
- Sketches
- Souvenir Currency
- Aesop's Fable Tags and Frames Scrapbook Paper
- Stickers
- Syndicated Newspaper Features
- Teacher Literature Units
- Tissage Imagé: Paper Puzzles for Weaving Together
- Woodcuts
This page is occasioned by my noticing that the illustration offered on a separated page from about 1901 is not faithful to Roberto Fontana's original woodcut. Here first is that separated page's illustration:
At first I was surprised at the portrait format of this illustration, good for the book's page size but not faithful to Fontana's image as I knew it. Then I noticed how much had changed in the center of the image. Here is a copy of the original woodcut:
As it happens, we have a hand-colored version of this and I presume that what we have was printed in 1878, in this catalogue under "Engravings":
To my surprise, I found more formattings of Fontana's image.
Did Fontana do all of these variations? And, particularly, did he do the separated page that we have? If not, who did?