Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 31. (Budapest, 2017)

Zsuzsa MARGITTAL: La Fontaine’s Fables and Other Animal Tales in the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts’ Collection

37 Hardie 1906, pp. 266, 268. An important source of information on their work and collaboration is Martin Hardie’s book. Hardie met the contemporary artists several times and corresponded with them.

38 Schoeser, Mary - Rufey, Celia: English and American Textiles from 1790 to the Present.

New York, 1989, p. 149.

39 One of the handkerchiefs shows the blending of two black-and-white scenes in the book: the cats destroying the festivities and the frog escaping out the window.

40 Blackburn 1886, p. 205.

41 A photo of the pattern sheet appears in: Kovács, Orsolya: Historizmus a Zsolnay kerámiában.

A Janus Pannonius Múzeum kiállítása [Historicism and Zsolnay ceramics. An exhibition of the Janus Pannonius Museum]. Pécs, 2003, p. 25.

42 Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Zsolnay, inv. no. 51.767.1.

43 JPM Zsolnay, inv. nos. 51. 2228.1; 51.2229.1.

44 Victoria & Albert Museum, inv. nos. C.186A-1976; C.184G-1976; C.184E-1976; C.184C-1976; C.186L-1976; C.186D-1976; C.186-1976; C.186G-1976.

45 Horváth, Hilda: ‘Walter Crane’s wallpaper in the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts’. Ars Decorativa 20, 2001, 45-51, p. 45 and 48, note 3. Pécs, JPM, inv. no. 51.6491.

46 Crane, Walter: The Absurd A.B.C. London,

George Routledge & Sons, 1874. https://archive.org/details/absurdabc00cran.

47 For ^^-century interpretations of these in art, see: Powell, Kirsten H.: Fables in Frames. La Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. New York, 1997.

48 I am indebted to the following for their assistance in gathering the material: Judit Bégány, Gábor Dormán, Zsófia Evinger, Brett Levitre, Piroska Novák, Ágnes Prékopa, Réka Semsey.

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