Item Info

Language: English
Material: Gouache and pen and ink on paper
Transcription:

"From about 60,000,000 years ago

Eohippus (dawn horse), notharctus (no-thark-tus), opossum, diatryma (dy-a-tree-m-a), barylambda (bar-ree-lamb-da), patriofelis, uintatherium (yew-in-ta-thee-ree-um)

Cenozoic Era, Tertiary Period, Paleocene and Eocene Epoch

To about 40,000,000 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: 22 cm
Call Number: BURT ACT 3
Creator Name: Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968 - Artist