Preliminary art for Life Story, Act II, Scene 2

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Preliminary art for Life Story, Act II, Scene 2

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Item No: burt00574
Title: Preliminary art for Life Story, Act II, Scene 2
Additional Title: Life Story
Language: English
Material: Graphite and pen and ink on paper
Transcription:

"Jurassic Period

The climate was moist and mild some allosaurus ate plants and grew very large some dinosaurs ate meat and were very strong some took to the air to escape and some took to the water and some put on armor for protection.

Amphibians, insects, archeopteryx, ichthyosaurus

Allosaurus, brontosaurus, stegosaurus, cycad

350,000,000 years ago."


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: 23 cm
Call Number: BURT ACT 2
Creator Name: Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968 - Artist

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