Collection:
Children's Literature
Item No:
burt00629r
Title:
Preliminary art of animals arranged by epoch, for Life Story
Book Title:
Life Story
Creation Year:
ca. 1954 - 1962
Creators:
- Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968 - Artist
Language:
English
Material:
Pen and ink on paper
Transcription:
Paleocene, uintatheres, primitive hoofed mammals, creodonts, opossums, condylarths 1 to 6, phenacodus 6', barylamda 8, uintatherium 12, patriofelis 9', titanotherium 15'
Eocene, creodonts, pre-deer, titanotheres, oreodonts, uinthatheres, tiny horses, notharctus 3', eohippus 14', protoceras, zeuglodon 50 to 75, miacis
Oligocene, creodonts, horses, toxodonts, dogs, rhinoceros, cats, tupaia, orohippus, mesohippus, dinictis, smilodon, cynodictis, bear dog, beaver, oreodont
Miocene, horses, deer, rhinoceros, glyptodonts, whales, cats, elephants, dogs, mammoth, mastodon, daphoenodon, dinohyus, baluchitherium, 18' tall altcamelus, antilocapridae, eloceros 11', stenomylus, oreodont 3'
Pliocene, horses, camels, pigs, deer, rodents, sloths, megatherium, glyptodont 14', ceratogaulus 2'
Pleistocene, man, rodents, artiodactyla, apes, weasels, elephants, saber toothed cats, bison, sloths, beavers, bears, wolves, woolly mammoths, felis atrox, bear, wooly rhinoceres, wolves, moose, bison, castoroides, mastodon, musk ox, cattle."
Bibliography:
Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
Provenance:
- Gift of Virginia Lee Burton, 1968.
Media Type:
Illustrations
Image Dimensions:
45 cm x 24 cm
Source:
Children's Literature Research Collection
Subjects:
