Preliminary art for Life Story, Act I, Scene 6

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Preliminary art for Life Story, Act I, Scene 6

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Item No: burt00525
Title: Preliminary art for Life Story, Act I, Scene 6
Additional Title: Life Story
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."


Media Type: Illustrations
Source: Children's Literature Research Collection
Provenance: Gift of Virginia Lee Burton, 1968.

Bibliography:

Virginia Lee Burton, Life Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).



Creation Year (Single Year or Earliest Date): 1962
Image Dimensions Width: 22 cm
Call Number: BURT ACT 1
Creator Name: Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968 - Artist

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