Creighton University

As I have remarked about one of the bound versions of Imagerie Nouvelle broadsides, they seem a poor man's Pellerin.  Each poster has its own way of integrating text and images.  Is that a tabernacle being carried by the ass attended by a monk?  As elsewhere, I have questions about coloring of some figures, like that of the ass approaching his seated owner.  All three of these sheets bear seven old staple impressions, curiously unevenly spaced.  I presume they once were portions of a published album of broadsides like the other in our collection.

This broadside features a fable by Jean de la Fontaine titled “La Vielle et les Deux Servantes.” The poster has twelve scenes drawn out in ink and then printed on the paper along with captions describing the images. All of the captioning and words are written in French.