Fables of Aesop according to Sir Roger L'Estrange

published 1931

Alexander Calder

Artist, American, 1898 - 1976

Sir Roger L'Estrange

Translator, English, 1616 - 1704

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 pen and ink drawing, text and 50 line-block illustrations

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art

  • Dimensions

    page size: 24.4 x 18.6 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 25.9 x 20.2 x 2.2 cm (10 3/16 x 7 15/16 x 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.31.1

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Associated Artworks

A Fox and a Carv'd Head

Alexander Calder

1931

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ursus Rare Books Ltd., New York); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Castleman, Riva. A Century of Artist's Books. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994: 120.

Inscriptions

on front free endpaper in blue ball-point pen: Dear Barbara, / I have not yet / begun to discard / my tools. / Love to you all / Sandy Calder / 14 Oct 75; on drawing, upper left in pen and black ink: Calder; by Barbara Harrison on page with publisher's note, lower center in pen and black ink: Thinking it would amuse the future / owner of this copy I asked my old / friend Sandy Calder for one of his / discarded tools to go with it, which / he indignantly but fondly refused. / Barbara Harrison of Paris Wescott. / October 15, 1975.

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