Collection:
Children's Literature
Item No:
burt00525
Title:
Preliminary art for Life Story, Act I, Scene 6
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 paper
Transcription:
"From about 235,000,000 years ago
Cacops, kay-kops, seymouria, see-more-ee-a, varanops, var-an-ops, sphenacodon, sfen-ack-o-don, edaphosaurus, ed-a-fo-saur-us, dimetrodon, dye-met-ro-don, conifer
Paleozoic Era, Permian Period
To about 200,000,000 years ago
Note
Meat eating reptiles are red.
Plant eating reptiles are green."
Bibliography:
Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
Provenance:
- Gift of Virginia Lee Burton, 1968.
Media Type:
Illustrations
Image Dimensions:
22 cm x 24 cm
Source:
Children's Literature Research Collection
Subjects:
