Selected Fables
Artwork Details
- Title: Selected Fables
- Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris)
- Illustrator: Alexander Calder (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1898–1976 New York)
- Publisher: Quadrangle Press (American, New York)
- Published in: New York
- Date: 1948
- Medium: Illustrations: photoreproductions of original drawings
- Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in. (31.5 x 24 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: John B. Turner Fund, 1966
- Object Number: 66.757.4
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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