Collection:
Children's Literature
Item No:
burt00366
Title:
Sketch of timeline, for Life Story
Book Title:
Life Story
Creation Year:
ca. 1954 - 1962
Creators:
- Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968 - Artist
Language:
English
Material:
Gouache, graphite, and pen and ink on board
Transcription:
"Pleistocene Early 24, 1,000,000
Middle Pleistocene, Prehistoric man, stone age, 25, 100,000
Swiss lakes, Alpine man, 26, 10,000
Early Egyptian Assyrian and ancient, trading numbers, 27, 7,000
Greek to Roman, 28, 5,000 2,500
Roman to Byzantine, 29, BC, 2,000
Middle ages, knights, crusader to, 1,000, 900, 800, 700, 600."
Notes:
This series was labeled “Ideas not pursued" by Ms. Burton or her assistant.
Bibliography:
Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
Provenance:
- Gift of Virginia Lee Burton, 1968.
Media Type:
Illustrations
Image Dimensions:
7 cm x 56 cm
Source:
Children's Literature Research Collection
Subjects:
